Acculturation, resilience, and depression in midlife women from the former Soviet Union

Nursing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 26-32

  Miller, Arlene Michaels ^a   Chandler, Peggy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Midlife women's health; Soviet immigrants

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; USSR;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHICAGO; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; USSR;

EID: 0036363628     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006199-200201000-00005     Document Type: Article

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