Factors that predict married partners' disclosures about infertility to social network members

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 250-270

  Steuber, Keli Ryan ^a   Solomon, Denise Haunani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disclosure decision making; Infertility; Privacy management; Revelation risk model; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960795312     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: 14795752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2011.585401     Document Type: Article

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