Gender-related needs, challenges, and dangers in the immigration experience in Israel of emerging adults from the former soviet union

Sex Roles

Volumn 54, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 533-546

  Walsh, Sophie ^a   Shulman, Shmuel ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Emerging adulthood; Gender; Immigration; Relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751005021     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-006-9023-1     Document Type: Article

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