Are developmental processes affected by immigration? Family processes, internalizing behaviors, and externalizing behaviors

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 799-813

  Vazsonyi, Alexander T ^a   Trejos Castillo, Elizabeth ^a   Huang, Li ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Immigrants; Parenting; Swiss youth; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749523852     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-006-9104-z     Document Type: Article

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