Acculturation and Psychological Distress Among Adolescent Immigrants From the Former Soviet Union: Exploring the Mediating Effect of Family Relationships

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-346

  Birman, Dina ^a   Taylor Ritzler, Tina ^b  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

acculturation; adjustment; adolescents; family relationships; immigrants

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; MALE; RANDOMIZATION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SUBURBAN AREA; USSR; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; DEPRESSION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES; USSR;

EID: 35648974660     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.13.4.337     Document Type: Article

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