Is Religious Coping Associated with Cumulative Health Risk? An Examination of Religious Coping Styles and Health Behavior Patterns in Alzheimer's Dementia Caregivers

Journal of Religion and Health

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 498-512

  Rabinowitz, Yaron G ^a   Hartlaub, Mark G ^a   Saenz, Ericka C ^a   Thompson, Larry W ^b   Gallagher Thompson, Dolores ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregivers; Health behaviors; Religious coping

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CAUCASIAN; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIET; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAREGIVERS; DIET; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SELF EFFICACY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WEIGHT GAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649746220     PISSN: 00224197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10943-009-9300-8     Document Type: Article

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