Assessing family-of-origin functioning in Mexican American adults: Retrospective application of the family environment scale

Assessment

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 396-405

  Negy, Charles ^a   Snyder, Douglas K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Family Environment Scale; Family of origin; Hispanics; Mexican Americans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; FAMILY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MEXICO; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES; TEXAS;

EID: 33750190891     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191106289809     Document Type: Article

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