Ego development and ethnic identity formation in rural American Indian adolescents

Child Development

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 734-746

  Newman, Denise L ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CONFLICT; EGO; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; PEER GROUP; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AWARENESS; CHILD; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PHOBIC DISORDERS; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 19744378320     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00874.x     Document Type: Article

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