Adolescents' psychological response to the experience of community interpersonal violence: A cross-national and a cross-cultural comparison

Adolescence

Volumn 41, Issue 163, 2006, Pages 417-433

  Rosenthal, Beth Spenciner ^b   Wilson, W Cody ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; JAMAICA; MALE; MIGRATION; NEGRO; PERSONALITY TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; JAMAICA; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33845209432     PISSN: 00018449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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