Parent-Adolescent Congruency in Reports of Adolescent Sexual Behavior and in Communications about Sexual Behavior

Child Development

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 247-261

  Jaccard, James ^a   Dittus, Patricia J ^b   Gordon, Vivian V ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031991032     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06146.x     Document Type: Article

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