Opportunity, outlook and coping in poor urban African American late-age female adolescent contraceptors

Smith College Studies in Social Work

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 456-475

  Stevens, Joyce West ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENTS; ADOLESCENTS, FEMALE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLACKS--WOMEN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ETHNIC GROUP; JUVENILE; METHODOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PERCEPTION; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; RESEARCH REPORT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-PERCEPTION--WOMEN; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION--WOMEN; VALUE ORIENTATION--WOMEN; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADOLESCENTS; ADOLESCENTS, FEMALE; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; BLACKS--WOMEN; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PERCEPTION; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SELF-PERCEPTION--WOMEN; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION--WOMEN; VALUE ORIENTATION--WOMEN; YOUTH;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; PERCEPTION; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL VALUES; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0031282999     PISSN: 00377317     EISSN: 15530426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00377319709517502     Document Type: Article

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