First-year students' adjustment to university life as a function of relationships with parents

Journal of Adolescent Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-37

  Wintre, Maxine Gallander ^a   Yaffe, Mordechai ^a,b,c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Unit 203   (Canada)

^c Eitz Chaim Day School in Toronto   (Canada)

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EID: 0034406835     PISSN: 07435584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0743558400151002     Document Type: Article

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