Adolescent hopefulness in Tanzania: Street youth, former street youth, and school youth

Journal of Adolescent Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 668-690

  Nalkur, Priya G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hope; Qualitative; Sentence completion; Street youth; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350534348     PISSN: 07435584     EISSN: 15526895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0743558409350501     Document Type: Article

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