Exploring the association of sense of coherence, and spiritual and religious beliefs in a rural population group on the Island of Crete, Greece

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 207-230

  Stefanaki, Ioanna ^a   Shea, Sue ^a   Linardakis, Manolis ^a   Symvoulakis, Emmanouil ^a   Wynyard, Robin ^b   Lionis, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coherence; elderly; health determinants; religiosity; spirituality; stress

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; GREECE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MARRIAGE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS GROUP; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; SENESCENCE; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SENSE OF COHERENCE SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY;

COHERENCE; ELDERLY; HEALTH DETERMINANTS; RELIGIOSITY; SPIRITUALITY; STRESS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUALITY; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 84902522457     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: 15413527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/PM.47.3.c     Document Type: Article

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