Marital Status, Marital Process, and Parental Resources in Predicting Adolescents' Emotional Adjustment: A Multilevel Analysis

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 291-317

  Vandervalk, Inge ^a   Spruijt, Ed ^a   De Goede, Martijn ^a   Meeus, Wim ^a   Maas, Cora ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Adolescent; Divorce; Family systems; Marital quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842581497     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X03257429     Document Type: Review

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