Male Gender Role Conflict and Willingness to Seek Counseling: Testing a Mediation Model on College-Aged Men

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 373-384

  Pederson, Erin L ^a   Vogel, David L ^a  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

gender role conflict; help seeking; self disclosure; self stigma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEX ROLE;

EID: 35448936816     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.54.4.373     Document Type: Article

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