Whose Stress is Making Me Sick? Network-stress and Emotional Distress in African-American Women

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 710-717

  Woods Giscombé, Cheryl L ^a   Lobel, Marci ^b   Zimmer, Catherine ^a   Wiley Cené, Crystal ^a   Corbie Smith, Giselle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; EMOTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84943249242     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01612840.2015.1011759     Document Type: Article

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