"We have friends, for example, and he will not get a vasectomy": Imagining the self in relation to others when talking about sterilization

Health Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 100-109

  Terry, Gareth ^a   Braun, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Critical discursive psychology; Masculinity; Relational decision making; Sense making; Vasectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MALE STERILIZATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEN'S HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SELF CONCEPT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; VASECTOMY;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; FRIENDS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MASCULINITY; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; VASECTOMY;

EID: 84881088094     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029081     Document Type: Article

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