Parenting and child psychosocial adjustment in single-parent African American families: Is community context important?

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 361-375

  Armistead, Lisa ^a   Forehand, Rex ^a,b   Brody, Gene ^a,b   Maguen, Shira ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEGRO; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIOLOGY; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0037884928     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7894(02)80033-8     Document Type: Article

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