The moderating effect of the negative impact of recent life events on the relation between intrinsic religiosity and death ideation in older adults

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 589-601

  Jahn, Danielle R ^a   Poindexter, Erin K ^a   Graham, Ryan D ^a   Cukrowicz, Kelly C ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RELIGION; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

EID: 84870924822     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1943-278X.2012.00114.x     Document Type: Article

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