The Intergenerational Costs of Parental Social Stressors: Academic and Social Difficulties in Early Adolescence for Children of Young Mothers

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 72-86

  Menaghan, Elizabeth G ^a   Kowaleski Jones, Lori ^b   Mott, Frank L ^b  

^a Center for Human Resource Research   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MENTAL STRESS; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031085914     PISSN: 00221465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2955362     Document Type: Article

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