Belief in divine control, coping, and race/ethnicity among older women with breast cancer

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-32

  Umezawa, Yoshiko ^a   Lu, Qian ^b   You, Jin ^b   Kagawa Singer, Marjorie ^c   Leake, Barbara ^c   Maly, Rose C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Aged; Cancer fatalism; Coping; Race ethnicity; Religiosity and belief in divine control

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; WOMEN;

EID: 84863984546     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-012-9358-5     Document Type: Article

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