Mediating role of coping in the dispositional optimism-posttraumatic growth relation in breast cancer patients

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 146, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 471-483

  Büyükaşik Çolak, Canan ^a   Gündoǧdu Aktürk, Elçin ^a   Bozo, Özlem ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

breast cancer; coping strategies; dispositional optimism; posttraumatic growth

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84864829020     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: 19401019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2012.654520     Document Type: Article

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