Left too early: The effects of age at separation from parents on Chinese rural children's symptoms of anxiety and depression

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2049-2054

  Liu, Zhengkui ^a   Li, Xinying ^a   Ge, Xiaojia ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHINA; CHINESE; DEPRESSION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIGRATION; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPARATION ANXIETY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PATERNAL DEPRIVATION; RURAL POPULATION; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 70349896939     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.150474     Document Type: Article

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