Current Issues and Future Directions in Research into the Stress Process

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 325-340

  Pearlin, Leonard I ^a   Bierman, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buffering; Indirect Effects; Resources; Secondary Stressors; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 85107840582     PISSN: 13896903     EISSN: 2542839X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4276-5_16     Document Type: Chapter

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