The relation of optimism to cardiac patients’ subjective health through illness representations: Does the level of optimism matter?

Social Indicators Research Series

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 175-188

  Karademas, Evangelos C ^a   Frokkai, Elvisa Foteini ^a   Tsotra, Evangelia ^a   Papazachariou, Rania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dispositional Optimism; Emotional Representation; High Optimism; Illness Representation; Indirect Relation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887992662     PISSN: 13876570     EISSN: 22150099     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4963-4_10     Document Type: Chapter

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