Positive and negative responses to personal discrimination: Does coping make a difference?

Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 93-106

  Foster, Mindi D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0034133650     PISSN: 00224545     EISSN: 19401183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224540009600448     Document Type: Article

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