Japanese college students' attitudes toward professional psychological services: The role of cultural self-construal and self-concealment

Psychological Reports

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 387-399

  Omori, Mika ^a  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENTS;

EID: 34250825909     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.100.2.387-399     Document Type: Article

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