Social support and depression of adults with visual impairments

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1734-1741

  Papadopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Papakonstantinou, Doxa ^a   Montgomery, Anthony ^a   Solomou, Argyro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b Secondary School of Kremasti   (Greece)

Author keywords

Depression; Social support; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ADOLESCENT; BLINDNESS; CLASSIFICATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; GREECE; LOW VISION; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SATISFACTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VALIDATION STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLINDNESS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VISION, LOW; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899980229     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: 18733379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.02.019     Document Type: Article

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