Mastery and stigma in predicting the subjective quality of life of patients with schizophrenia in Taiwan

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 494-500

  Hsiung, Ping Chuan ^a   Pan, Ay Woan ^a,b   Liu, Shi Kai ^a,c,d   Chen, Shing Chia ^a   Peng, Szu Yi ^b   Chung, Lyinn ^e  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mastery; path analysis; quality of life; schizophrenia; stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PATH ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STIGMA; TAIWAN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREJUDICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TAIWAN;

EID: 77954638105     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181e4d310     Document Type: Article

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