Toward understanding and measuring adaptation level in the context of the roy adaptation model

Nursing Science Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 355-359

  DeSanto Madeya, Susan ^a   Fawcett, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation level; Adjustment; Conceptual model; Middle range theory; Roy adaptation model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; NURSING THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NURSING THEORY;

EID: 73449133807     PISSN: 08943184     EISSN: 15527409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894318409344753     Document Type: Article

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