Associations among familism, language, preference, and education in Mexican-American mothers and their children

Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 34-40

  Romero, Andrea J ^a   Robinson, Thomas N ^b,c   Haydel, K Farish ^c   Mendoza, Fernando ^b   Killen, Joel D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Familism; Language preference; Mexican American

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACCULTURATION; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MEXICO; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MULTILINGUALISM; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 1342326327     PISSN: 0196206X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004703-200402000-00006     Document Type: Article

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