Mental Health of Preschool Children and their Mothers in a Mixed Urban/Rural Population: III. Latent Variable Models

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 168, Issue JAN., 1996, Pages 26-32

  Stevenson, Jim ^a,c   Thompson, Margaret J J ^b   Sonuga Barke, Edmund ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; TEMPERAMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTHERS; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERAMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0029898370     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.168.1.26     Document Type: Article

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