Pilot-testing the vietnamese parental attitude scale: Three major factors

International Social Work

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Cheung, Monit ^a,b   Nguyen, Myhang Sabrina ^c,d  

^a Departmento of Children and Families Concentration   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c Houston Independent School District   (United States)

^d HISD Strategic Partnership Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Biculturalism; Parent child relationship; Parental attitudes; Parenting measurement; Vietnamese families

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847420976     PISSN: 00208728     EISSN: 14617234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020872807073987     Document Type: Article

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