Sexuality and Life Skills Education: A Multistrategy Intervention in Mexico

American Psychologist

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 230-234

  Pick, Susan ^a,b   Givaudan, Martha ^a   Poortinga, Ype H ^c,d  

^a Instituto Mexicano de Investigacion de Familia y Poblacion AC   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CULTURE; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0037562823     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.58.3.230     Document Type: Review

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