Compensatory health beliefs: Scale development and psychometric properties

Psychology and Health

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 607-624

  Knäuper, Bärbel ^a   Rabiau, Marjorie ^a   Cohen, Oshra ^a   Patriciu, Nicholas ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anticipated pleasure; Compensatory health beliefs; Dissonance; Health behavior; Irrational health beliefs; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644281915     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0887044042000196737     Document Type: Article

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