Death Anxiety and Well-Being; Coping With Life-Threatening Events

Traumatology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 280-291

  Hoelterhoff, Mark ^a   Chung, Man Cheung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA   (United Kingdom)

^b ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

and religious coping; death anxiety; PTSD; self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890510557     PISSN: 15347656     EISSN: 10859373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534765613477499     Document Type: Article

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