Coping strategies as mediators of the relationship between sense of coherence and stress reactions: Israeli adolescents under missile attacks

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 327-341

  Braun Lewensohn, Orna ^a   Sagy, Shifra ^a   Roth, Guy ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognitive appraisal; Coping strategies; Sense of coherence; Stress reactions

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; WAR; WEAPON;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ANGER; ANXIETY; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAR; WEAPONS;

EID: 79953288269     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2010.494329     Document Type: Article

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