Black and white college students’ choices of descriptors for older women and older women relatives

Journal of Women and Aging

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 165-176

  Waskel, Shirley A ^a   Dubes, Margaret ^b   Reviere, Rebecca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b Methodist Coll Nursing All Hlth   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0346047305     PISSN: 08952841     EISSN: 15407322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J074v09n01_13     Document Type: Article

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