Engaging with sleep: Male definitions, understandings and attitudes

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 696-710

  Meadows, Robert ^a   Arber, Sara ^a   Venn, Susan ^a   Hislop, Jenny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body; Men; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SLEEP; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ENGLAND; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEN; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 47349112883     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01088.x     Document Type: Article

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