Attitudes toward Face-to-Face and Online Counseling: Roles of Self-Concealment, Openness to Experience, Loss of Face, Stigma, and Disclosure Expectations among Korean College Students

International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 408-422

  Bathje, Geoff J ^a   Kim, Eunha ^b   Rau, Ellen ^a   Bassiouny, Muhammad Adam ^a   Kim, Taehoon ^c  

^a ADLER SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY   (United States)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^c Kyungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Disclosure expectations; Online counseling; Openness to experience; Self concealment; Self stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919431237     PISSN: 01650653     EISSN: 15733246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10447-014-9215-2     Document Type: Article

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