Gender differences in negative psychological responses to Crisis News: The case of the I-35W collapse

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-48

  Lachlan, Kenneth A ^a   Spence, Patric R ^b   Nelson, Lindsay D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis Communication; Gender Differences; Media Dependency; Rumination

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959652605     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08824090903293601     Document Type: Article

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