Links between pubertal timing and neighborhood contexts: Implications for girls' violent behavior

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1460-1468

  Obeidallah, Dawn ^a,c   Brennan, Robert T ^a   Brooks Gunn, Jeanne ^b   Earls, Felton ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^c College House ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Girls; Neighborhood; Puberty; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBERTY; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT OF OFFENDING SCALE; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; AGE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; PUBERTY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VIOLENCE;

EID: 16344395193     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.chi.0000142667.52062.1e     Document Type: Article

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