Exploring global meaning in Greek breast cancer patients: Validation of the Life Attitude Profile-Revised (LAP-R)

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 419-427

  Anagnostopoulos, Fotios ^a   Slater, Julie ^b   Fitzsimmons, Deborah ^b   Kolokotroni, Philippa ^a  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

breast cancer; cancer; global meaning; LAP R; oncology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO LIFE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; GREECE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LIFE ATTITUDE PROFILE REVISED; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VALIDITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT;

EID: 79953022628     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1755     Document Type: Article

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