Resilience: A new paradigm for adaptation to chronic pain

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 105-112

  Sturgeon, John A ^a   Zautra, Alex J ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Coping behavior; Resilience (psychological); Stress

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953537619     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-010-0095-9     Document Type: Review

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