Beyond depression: Yearning for the loss of a loved one

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 85-101

  Stroebe, Wolfgang ^a   Abakoumkin, Georgios ^b   Stroebe, Margaret ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE; WIDOW; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 77954000392     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.61.2.a     Document Type: Article

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