Happily Hopeless: Adaptation to a Permanent, But Not to a Temporary, Disability

Health Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 787-791

  Smith, Dylan M ^a   Loewenstein, George ^b   Jankovic, Aleksandra ^c   Ubel, Peter A ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; disability; quality of life; well being

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTAL MAIL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; COLOSTOMY; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 72949107085     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016624     Document Type: Article

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