Vulnerability, life events and depression amongst Moslem Malaysian women: Comparing those married and those divorced or separated

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 853-862

  Abdul Kadir, Nor Ba'Yah ^a   Bifulco, Antonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; Life events; Malaysia; Single mother; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIVORCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALAYSIA; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SINGLE PARENT; SPOUSE; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISLAM; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALAYSIA; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SINGLE PARENT; SPOUSES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 80052340753     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0249-4     Document Type: Article

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