Violent Political Contexts and the Emotional Concerns of Township Youth

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 46-54

  Straker, Gill ^a   Mendelsohn, Michaela ^a   Moosa, Fathima ^a   Tudin, Pam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CIVIL DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOUTH AFRICA; VIOLENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CIVIL DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; RACE RELATIONS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOUTH AFRICA; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0030078002     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01718.x     Document Type: Article

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