Surviving poverty: Stress and coping in the lives of housed and homeless mothers

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 479-489

  Banyard, Victoria L ^a   Graham Bermann, Sandra A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEPRESSION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MOTHERS; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0031926780     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0080357     Document Type: Article

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