Label management: Investigating how confidants encourage the use of communication strategies to avoid stigmatization

Health Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 410-422

  Smith, Rachel A ^a   Hipper, Thomas J ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955115638     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2010.483335     Document Type: Article

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