Relationship to the bereaved and perceptions of severity of trauma differentiate elements of posttraumatic growth

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-140

  Armstrong, Deanne ^a   Shakespeare Finch, Jane ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUSTRALIA; BEREAVEMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBJECT RELATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUSTRALIA; BEREAVEMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959724664     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.63.2.b     Document Type: Article

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