"I Am a Blood Sugar Checker": Intervening Effects of Self-as-doer Identity on the Relationship between Self-efficacy and Diabetes Self-care Behaviors

Self and Identity

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 472-491

  Brouwer, Amanda M ^a   Mosack, Katie E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Identity; Self as doer; Self care behaviors; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865982160     PISSN: 15298868     EISSN: 15298876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2011.603901     Document Type: Article

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