Economic well-being and children's social adjustment: The role of family process in an ethnically diverse low-income sample

Child Development

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 935-951

  Mistry, Rashmita S ^a   Vandewater, Elizabeth A ^b   Huston, Aletha C ^b   McLoyd, Vonnie C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0036579759     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00448     Document Type: Review

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