Geographic Mobility, Family, and Maternal Variables as Related to the Psychosocial Adjustment of Military Children

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1019-1024

  Finkel, Lisa B ^a   Kelley, Michelle L ^a   Ashby, Jayne ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEPRESSION; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GEOGRAPHY; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MOTHER; PERCEPTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOLDIER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0346217010     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.12.1019     Document Type: Article

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