Attributions of poverty among social work and non-social work students in Croatia

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 741-749

  Ljubotina, Olja Družić ^a   Ljubotina, Damir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WORK; STUDENT;

AGRICULTURE; CAUSALITY; CROATIA; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POVERTY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIAL WORK; STUDENTS;

EID: 35649013751     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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