It's like our own little world: Resilience as a factor in participating in the ballroom community subculture

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1524-1539

  Kubicek, Katrina ^a   McNeeley, Miles ^a   Holloway, Ian W ^b   Weiss, George ^a   Kipke, Michele D ^a,c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African American YMSM; House and Ball; Resilience; Subculture

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COPING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880759608     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-012-0205-2     Document Type: Article

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