No more the same: The lives of adolescents in Taiwan who have lost fathers

Family and Community Health

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-56

  Hsu, Min Tao ^a   Kahn, David L ^b   Huang, Chun Man ^c  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Department of Computer Science and Information Education   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Absent father; Adolescent; Grief; Parental death

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; LITERATURE; MALE; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; PERSONALITY TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TAIWAN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; ANECDOTES; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; TAIWAN;

EID: 0036550328     PISSN: 01606379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003727-200204000-00008     Document Type: Article

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