Impersonal, interpersonal, and hyperpersonal social support: Cancer and older adults

Health Communication

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 227-234

  Robinson, James D ^a   Turner, Jeanine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFESPAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOLOGY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038651978     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327027HC1502_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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