Personality and gender as predictors of online counseling use

Journal of Technology in Human Services

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 39-55

  Tsan, Jack Y ^a   Day, Susan X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Computer mediated counseling; Gender; Help seeking behavior; Internet; Online counseling; Personality; Telehealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548608887     PISSN: 15228835     EISSN: 15228991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J017v25n03_03     Document Type: Article

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