Survey return rates using a covering letter signed by a graduate student or faculty member

Psychological Reports

Volumn 91, Issue 3 PART 2, 2002, Pages 1174-1176

  Szirony, Tracy A ^a   Price, James H ^b   Telljohann, Susan K ^b   Wolfe, Elizabeth ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH ETHICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, NURSING, GRADUATE; ETHICS, RESEARCH; FACULTY, NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REINFORCEMENT, SOCIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 0036988529     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2002.91.3f.1174     Document Type: Article

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