Effects of poverty on academic failure and delinquency in boys: A change and process model approach

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1209-1219

  Pagani, Linda ^a   Boulerice, Bernard ^b   Vitaro, Frank ^b   Tremblay, Richard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DELINQUENCY; DIVORCE; FAMILY; FIGHTING; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; POVERTY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEFT;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHILD; DIVORCE; FAMILY; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; UNDERACHIEVEMENT;

EID: 0032713729     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021963099004783     Document Type: Article

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