Religious/spiritual coping and adjustment in individuals with cancer: Unanswered questions, important trends, and future directions

Mental Health, Religion and Culture

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-65

  Lavery, Megan E ^a   O'Hea, Erin L ^b  

^a LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stone Hill College   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Illness adjustment; Negative religious coping; Positive religious coping; Religious coping

Indexed keywords

EID: 74349102452     PISSN: 13674676     EISSN: 14699737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13674670903131850     Document Type: Article

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