"Trouble won't last always": Religious coping and meaning in the stress process

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 773-781

  Harris, Grant M ^a   Allen, Rebecca S ^a   Dunn, Linda ^a   Parmelee, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

caregivers caregiving; coping and adaptation; geriatrics; illness and disease, chronic; older people; religion spirituality; stress distress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; CAREGIVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; ARTICLE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CAREGIVERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84876803087     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732313482590     Document Type: Article

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