Meaning and coping orientation of bereaved parents: Individual and dyadic processes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Albuquerque, Sara ^a,b   Buyukcan Tetik, Asuman ^c   Stroebe, Margaret S ^d,e   Schut, Henk A W ^d   Narciso, Isabel ^b   Pereira, Marco ^a   Finkenauer, Catrin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEREAVEMENT; CHILD; DEATH; HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PROCESS MODEL; PUBLICATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS;

EID: 85019979407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178861     Document Type: Article

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