Kin and Nonkin Social Supports in a Community Sample of Vietnamese Immigrants

Social Work

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 248-258

  Gellis, Zvi D ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Nathan Kline Inst Psychiat Res   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Immigrants; Kinship networks; Social support; Vietnamese

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIETNAM;

EID: 0038074359     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/48.2.248     Document Type: Article

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