Meaning-making following spinal cord injury: Individual differences and within-person change

Rehabilitation Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 166-177

  Davis, Christopher G ^a   Novoa, Danay C ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Coping; Meaning; Posttraumatic growth; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SELF REPORT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; ONTARIO; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84881260466     PISSN: 00905550     EISSN: 19391544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031554     Document Type: Article

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