Overcoming ambivalence: The challenges of exploring socially charged issues

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 718-735

  Clarke, Laura Hurd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Impression management; Interview; Life history; Methodology; Photographs; Rapport

Indexed keywords

AMBIVALENCE; ANXIETY; BODY IMAGE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE HISTORY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SELF DISCLOSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANXIETY; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; SELF DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0038621416     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732303013005009     Document Type: Review

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