Acculturation and conflict in Mexican immigrants' intimate partnerships: The role of women's labor force participation

Violence Against Women

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1194-1212

  Grzywacz, Joseph G ^a   Rao, Pamela ^b   Gentry, Amanda ^c   Marín, Antonio ^a   Arcury, Thomas A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Farmworker Justice   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Conflict; Dual earner families; Mexican immigrants; Women's employment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN, WORKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349658757     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801209345144     Document Type: Article

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