Is Self-Disclosure in Couples Coping With Cancer Associated With Improvement in Depressive Symptoms?

Health Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 753-762

  Hagedoorn, Mariët ^a   Puterman, Eli ^b   Sanderman, Robbert ^a   Wiggers, Theo ^a   Baas, Peter C ^c   van Haastert, Michiel ^c   DeLongis, Anita ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MARTINI HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication; Couples; Distress; Self disclosure; Spouse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTER OF EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SELF DISCLOSURE; THINKING; VERBALIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES;

EID: 82055172545     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024374     Document Type: Article

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