Social Comparison Preferences among Cancer Patients as Related to Neuroticism and Social Comparison Orientation

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 801-810

  Van Der Zee, Karen ^a   Oldersma, Frans ^a   Buunk, Bram P ^a   Bos, Dianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NEUROSIS; ORIENTATION; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; ORIENTATION; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032160510     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.75.3.801     Document Type: Review

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