Surrogate motherhood: Personality traits and satisfaction with service providers

Psychological Reports

Volumn 87, Issue 3 PART 1, 2000, Pages 957-970

  Kleinpeter, Christine Hagan ^a   Hohman, Melinda M ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Long Beach ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY TEST; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SURROGATE MOTHERS;

EID: 0034575705     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2000.87.3.957     Document Type: Article

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