Mental Models of Attachment and Coping with Abortion

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 453-467

  Cozzarelli, Catherine ^b   Sumer, Nebi ^c   Major, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Kansas State University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION SEEKERS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BONDING; CONTROL; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FERTILITY CONTROL, POSTCONCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDUCED ABORTION; METHODOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; POSTABORTION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH REPORT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-PERCEPTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL STUDIES; STRESS; STUDIES; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ABORTION SEEKERS; ABORTION, INDUCED; AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; BONDING; CORRELATION STUDIES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY CONTROL, POSTCONCEPTION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW YORK; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; POSTABORTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SELF-PERCEPTION; SEX BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; STATISTICAL STUDIES; STRESS; STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEW YORK; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0031990508     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.2.453     Document Type: Article

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