'Don't rock the boat': Nursing students' experiences of conformity and compliance

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 342-349

  Levett Jones, Tracy ^a   Lathlean, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belongingness; Compliance; Conformity; Nursing student

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 61849114679     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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