Gender differences in distress: Mental health consequences of environmental stress among jail inmates

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 503-523

  Lindquist, Christine H ^b   Lindquist, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; PRISONER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRISONERS; PRISONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0031442898     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0798(199723/09)15:4<503::AID-BSL281>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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