Burden Self-Image: A Mediating Variable of Depressive Symptoms Among Chronically Ill Care Recipients

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-33

  Dyeson, Timothy B ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Exchange; Family caregiving; Spirituality; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937330911     PISSN: 01634372     EISSN: 15404048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J083v33n01_03     Document Type: Article

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