Traditional versus modern values and interpersonal factors predicting stress response syndromes in a Swiss elderly population

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 631-640

  Mller, Mario ^a   Forstmeier, Simon ^a   Wagner, Birgit ^b   Maercker, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

interpersonal factors; stress response syndrome; value orientations

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND; SYNDROME; VICTIM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRIME VICTIMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC, ACUTE; SWITZERLAND; SYNDROME;

EID: 84857430664     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2011.564192     Document Type: Article

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