The high price of affluence

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue C, 2004, Pages 125-162

  Luthar, Suniya S ^a   Sexton, Chris C ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADOLESCENT; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADOLESCENT; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; PARENTS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 13944250695     PISSN: 00652407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2407(04)80006-5     Document Type: Article

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