Effect of sociocultural context and parenting style on scholastic achievement among Iranian adolescents

Social Development

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 169-180

  Assadi, Seyed Mohammad ^a,e   Zokaei, Nayereh ^a   Kaviani, Hossein ^a   Mohammadi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Ghaeli, Padideh ^a   Gohari, Mahmood Reza ^b,c   Van De Vijver, Fons J R ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Department of Biostatistics ^*  (Iran)

^c University of Medical Sciences   (Iran)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Iran; Parenting style; Scholastic achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846586378     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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