Familism as a predictor of parent-adolescent relationships and developmental outcomes for adolescents in Armenian American immigrant families

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 599-613

  Ghazarian, Sharon R ^a   Supple, Andrew J ^a   Plunkett, Scott W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic motivation; Armenian; Familism; Immigrant; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 45349087925     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-007-9177-7     Document Type: Article

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