Discrepant Feeling Rules and Unscripted Emotion Work: Women Coping With Termination for Fetal Anomaly

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 441-451

  McCoyd, Judith L M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural lag; Feeling rules; Medical technology; Prenatal testing; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; LEGAL ABORTION; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ABORTION, LEGAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FETUS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77950359718     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: 19390025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0010483     Document Type: Article

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