School adjustment among children of immigrant mothers in Taiwan

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1141-1150

  Chin, Joseph Meng Chun ^a   Yu, Sen Chi ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HUAFAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Children of immigrants; Immigrant mothers; Item response theory; Rasch model; School adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249115863     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2008.36.8.1141     Document Type: Article

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