The Intergenerational Cycle of Teenage Motherhood: An Ecological Approach

Health Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 419-429

  Meade, Christina S ^a   Kershaw, Trace S ^b   Ickovics, Jeannette R ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological Systems Theory; intergenerational cycle; risk factors; teenage childbearing; teenage motherhood

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER; PEER GROUP; POVERTY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; TEENAGE MOTHERHOOD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 48049093059     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.27.4.419     Document Type: Article

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