Social networks, social support, personal empowerment, and the adaptation of psychiatric consumers/survivors: Path analytic models

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1743-1754

  Hall, G Brent ^a   Nelson, Geoffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community adaptation; Gender; Path model; Social networks; Social support

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; GENDER; HUMAN; MENTAL PATIENT; MODEL; REHABILITATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0030560682     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00069-X     Document Type: Article

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