Psychological adjustment during three Japanese Antarctic research expeditions

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 142-156

  Weiss, Karine ^a   Suedfeld, Peter ^b   Steel, G Daniel ^c   Tanaka, Masafumi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; LIVING STANDARD; MENTAL HEALTH; PERCEPTION;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0034014475     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00139160021972478     Document Type: Article

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