A test of the intergenerational congruence in immigrant families - Child scale with Southeast Asian Americans

Social Work Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-43

  Ying, Yu Wen ^a   Han, Meekyung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intergenerational congruence; Intergenerational relationship; Migrant families; Southeast Asian Americans

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247513909     PISSN: 10705309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/swr/31.1.35     Document Type: Article

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