Influence of the social context on use of surgical-lengthening and group-empowering coping strategies among people with dwarfism

Rehabilitation Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 224-235

  Fernández, Saulo ^a   Branscombe, Nyla R ^b   Gámez, Ángel ^a   Morales, J Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping strategies; Disability organizations; Disproportionate short stature; Little People; Social stigmatization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISABILITY ORGANIZATION; DWARFISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG LENGTHENING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STIGMA; SPAIN; UNITED STATES; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BONE LENGTHENING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DECISION MAKING; DWARFISM; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873261734     PISSN: 00905550     EISSN: 19391544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029280     Document Type: Article

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