Predictors and parameters of resilience to loss: Toward an individual differences model

Journal of Personality

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1805-1832

  Mancini, Anthony D ^a   Bonanno, George A ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROL; COPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIVIDUALITY; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ANXIETY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70450188167     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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