What Matters? What Does Not? Five Perspectives on the Association between Marital Transitions and Children's Adjustment

American Psychologist

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 167-184

  Hetherington, E Mavis ^a   Bridges, Margaret ^b   Insabella, Glendessa M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CUSTODY; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD CUSTODY; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0031989391     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.53.2.167     Document Type: Article

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