Black women and white women: Do perceptions of childhood family environment differ?

Family Process

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 243-256

  Clay, Cassandra M ^a   Ellis, Michael A ^a   Griffin, Margaret L ^a   Amodeo, Maryann ^a   Fassler, Irene R ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Family; Family Environment; Family Environment Scale; Racial Differences; Sibling Corroboration; Strengths in Black Families

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFLICT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; SIBLING RELATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE; CHILD; COMMUNICATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIBLING RELATIONS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 34249054917     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2007.00207.x     Document Type: Article

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