Linking dispositional mindfulness and positive psychological processes in cancer survivorship: a multivariate path analytic test of the mindfulness-to-meaning theory

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 686-692

  Garland, Eric L ^a,b   Thielking, Paul ^a   Thomas, Elizabeth A ^b   Coombs, Mary ^b   White, Shelley ^a   Lombardi, Joy ^a   Beck, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE STRESS; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MINDFULNESS; MINDFULNESS TO MEANING THEORY; OVARY CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; THEORY; ATTENTION; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVORSHIP;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PERSONALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORSHIP;

EID: 85019129092     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.4065     Document Type: Article

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