Resilience as a predictive factor towards a healthy adjustment to grief after the loss of a child to cancer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2019, Pages

  Vegsund, Hilde Kristin ^a   Reinfjell, Trude ^a   Moksnes, Unni Karin ^a   Wallin, Alexandra Eilegård ^b   Hjemdal, Odin ^a   Eilertsen, Mary Elizabeth Bradley ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE EVENT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CANCER MORTALITY; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY COPING; FAMILY INTERACTION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWEGIAN (PEOPLE); PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PARENTAL DEATH; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE; RESILIENCE SCALE FOR ADULTS; SELF CONCEPT; FAMILY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PARENTS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85063357484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214138     Document Type: Article

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