Illness representation and self-regulation of cancer patients

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Psychologie

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 117-127

  Förster, Charis ^b   Taubert, Steffen ^a  

^a Arbeitsbereich Kleinkindpädagogik ^*

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Common sense model of illness representation; Coping; Illness representation; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013623890     PISSN: 09405569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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