The Influence of Coping Styles on Mammography Screening in a Multiethnic Sample

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 183-192

  Kudadjie Gyamfi, Elizabeth ^a   Magai, Carol ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coping styles; ethnic subpopulations; imagined breast cancer diagnosis; mammograms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CAUCASIAN; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEGRO; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 47749136952     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.14.3.183     Document Type: Article

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