Coping with potentially incompatible identities: Accounts of religious, ethnic, and sexual identities from British Pakistani men who identify as Muslim and gay

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 849-870

  Jaspal, Rusi ^a   Cinnirella, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; ETHNOLOGY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; PAKISTAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STIGMA; UNITED KINGDOM; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); GREAT BRITAIN; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; ISLAM; MALE; NARRATION; PAKISTAN; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL STIGMA;

EID: 78650087257     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466609X485025     Document Type: Article

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