Social Sources of Women's Emotional Difficulty After Abortion: Lessons from Women's Abortion Narratives

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 103-109

  Kimport, Katrina ^a   Foster, Kira ^a   Weitz, Tracy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CODEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNPLANNED; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79958721176     PISSN: 15386341     EISSN: 19312393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1363/4310311     Document Type: Article

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