God image and happiness in chronic pain patients: The mediating role of disease interpretation

Pain Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 765-773

  Dezutter, Jessie ^a   Luyckx, Koen ^a   Schaap Jonker, Hanneke ^b,c   Büssing, Arndt ^d   Corveleyn, Jozef ^a,c   Hutsebaut, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Protestant Theological University PThU   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic Pain; Psychology; Psychosocial Factors; Quality of Life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953700356     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.00827.x     Document Type: Article

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