Cancer and mastery: Do age and cohort matter?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1285-1291

  Pudrovska, Tetyana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Cancer; Cohort; Life course; Mastery; USA

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956339841     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.06.029     Document Type: Article

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