Parent-child value similarity: The role of zeitgeist

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 778-792

  Boehnke, Klaus ^a   Hadjar, Andreas ^b   Baier, Dirk ^c  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Criminological Research Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Family interaction; Intergenerational value transmission; Measurement; Panel study; Social context

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547271771     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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