Matching health messages to health locus of control beliefs for promoting mammography utilization

Psychology and Health

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 407-423

  Williams Piehota, Pamela ^a   Schneider, Tamera R ^b   Pizarro, Judith ^c   Mowad, Linda ^d   Salovey, Peter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d YALE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Locus of control; Mammography; Persuasion; Tailored

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142680951     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870440310001652678     Document Type: Article

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