Economic hardship, family relationships, and adolescent distress: An evaluation of a stress-distress mediation model in mother-daughter and mother-son dyads

Adolescence

Volumn 32, Issue 126, 1997, Pages 338-356

  Lempers, Jacques D ^a   Clark Lempers, Dania S ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEPRESSION; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; POVERTY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; CHILD; DEPRESSION; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; POVERTY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031159908     PISSN: 00018449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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