Cross-cultural differences in psychosocial adaptation to isolated and confined environments

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 973-980

  Palinkas, Lawrence A ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey C ^b   Boster, James S ^c   Rakusa Suszczewski, Stanislaw ^d   Klopov, Valeri P ^e   Xue, Quan Fu ^f   Sachdeva, Usha ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^e Department of Social Ecology   (Russian Federation)

^f INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^g ARABIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Extreme environments; Mood; Multinational crews; Social support

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONFUSION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MOOD; POLAND; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES; WINTER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CHINA; COLD CLIMATE; CONFINED SPACES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EXPEDITIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PERSONNEL SELECTION; POLAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RUSSIA; SEASONS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 7244251520     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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