Expanding the family economic stress model: Insights from a mixed-methods approach

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 196-209

  Mistry, Rashmita S ^a   Lowe, Edward D ^b   Benner, Aprile D ^a   Chien, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOKA UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Family processes; Parent child relations; Poverty; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 38649098754     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00471.x     Document Type: Article

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