Religious coping, religious support, and psychological functioning among short-term missionaries

Mental Health, Religion and Culture

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 611-626

  Bjorck, Jeff P ^a   Kim, Jean Woo ^b  

^a FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY   (United States)

^b Metropolitan State Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

life satisfaction; missionary stress; religious coping; religious support; trait anger

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055098825     PISSN: 13674676     EISSN: 14699737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13674670903014932     Document Type: Article

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