Psychosocial adaptation of adolescent migrants in a Swiss community survey

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 308-316

  Steinhausen, Hans Christoph ^a   Bearth Carrari, Cinzia ^a   Winkler Metzke, Christa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Cross cultural comparison; Epidemiology; Migration; Psychosocial adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CITIZENSHIP; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN UNION; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; MIGRATION; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SWITZERLAND;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SWITZERLAND; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 63949085396     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-008-0437-7     Document Type: Article

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