You need a song to bring you through: The use of religious songs to manage stressful life events

Gerontologist

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-38

  Hamilton, Jill B ^a   Sandelowski, Margarete ^a   Moore, Angelo D ^b   Agarwal, Mansi ^a   Koenig, Harold G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SINGING; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SINGING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875540573     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gns064     Document Type: Article

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