Bringing it all back home: How outside stressors shape families' everyday lives

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 106-111

  Repetti, Rena ^a   Wang, Shu Wen ^a   Saxbe, Darby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Family processes; Naturalistic methods; School stressors; Stress and coping; Work family

Indexed keywords

EID: 64949114114     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01618.x     Document Type: Article

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