Elevated physical health risk among gay men who conceal their homosexual identity

Health Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 243-251

  Cole, Steve W ^a   Kemeny, Margaret E ^a   Taylor, Shelley E ^a   Visscher, Barbara R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Homosexuality; Infectious diseases; Psychological inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SELF DISCLOSURE; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BISEXUALITY; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LOS ANGELES; MALE; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SELF DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0030179990     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.15.4.243     Document Type: Article

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