Testing equivalence of mediating models of income, parenting, and school readiness for White, Black, and Hispanic children in a national sample

Child Development

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 96-115

  Raver, C Cybele ^a   Gershoff, Elizabeth T ^b   Aber, J Lawrence ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NEGRO; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCOME; INTELLIGENCE; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENTING; POVERTY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33847410520     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.00987.x     Document Type: Article

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