A threshold model of social support, adjustment, and distress after breast cancer treatment

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 150-160

  Mallinckrodt, Brent ^a   Armer, Jane M ^b   Heppner, P Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment to chronic illness; Breast cancer; Distress; Social support; Threshold effects

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84860802324     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026549     Document Type: Article

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