Expanding coping goodness-of-fit: religious coping, health locus of control, and depressed affect in heart failure patients

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 137-153

  Park, Crystal L ^a   Sacco, Shane J ^a   Edmondson, Donald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

congestive heart failure; coping; goodness of fit; health locus of control; religious coping; religious resources

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RELIGION; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84860703407     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2011.586030     Document Type: Article

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