Contact With the Dead, Religion, and Death Anxiety Among Older Mexican Americans

Death Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 932-948

  Krause, Neal ^a   Bastida, Elena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; RELIGION; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867629981     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2011.604468     Document Type: Article

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