Goal Adjustment Capacities, Coping, and Subjective Well-Being: The Sample Case of Caregiving for a Family Member With Mental Illness

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 934-946

  Wrosch, Carsten ^a   Amir, Ella ^a   Miller, Gregory E ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caregiving; Coping; Goal adjustment; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COST OF ILLNESS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79955512762     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022873     Document Type: Article

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