The puzzle of problem-solving efficacy: Understanding anxiety among urban children coping with asthma-related and life stress

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 383-398

  Murdock, Karla Klein ^a   Greene, Carolyn ^b   Adams, Sue K ^c   Hartmann, William ^a   Bittinger, Sally ^a   Will, Kelly ^a  

^a WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Asthma; Child; Ethnic minority; Problem solving efficacy; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MORTALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; URBAN POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; ASTHMA; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77952219604     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800903118049     Document Type: Article

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