Matters of the heart: Patients' adjustment to life following a cardiac crisis

Psychology and Health

Volumn 26, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 83-100

  So, Sharon S ^a   la Guardia, Jennifer G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac patients; Emotion regulation; Marital functioning; Psychological health

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF DISCLOSURE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF DISCLOSURE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 79960672264     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: 14768321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870441003690456     Document Type: Article

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