Culture and the self: Implications for the perception of depression by Australian and Vietnamese nursing students

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1147-1154

  Fry, Anne J ^a   Nguyen, Tiep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Government   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIET NAM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS, NURSING; VIETNAM;

EID: 0030161725     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1996.13511.x     Document Type: Article

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