Parental involvement promotes rural African American youths' self-pride and sexual self-concepts

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 627-642

  Murry, Velma McBride ^a   Brody, Grene H ^a   McNair, Lily D ^a,d   Luo, Zupei ^a   Gibbons, Frederick X ^b,e   Gerrard, Meg ^b,e   Wills, Thomas Ashby ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^e Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Family based prevention; Identity development; Parenting; Rural

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646185322     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2005.00158.x     Document Type: Article

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