Finding Meaning in Loss: The Mediating Role of Social Support Between Personality and Two Construals of Meaning

Death Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 519-540

  Boyraz, Güler ^a   Horne, Sharon G ^b   Sayger, Thomas V ^c  

^a TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEREAVEMENT; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861495130     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2011.553331     Document Type: Article

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