Parenting styles as perceived by Vietnamese American adolescents

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 505-518

  Nguyen, Peter Viet ^a   Cheung, Monit ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Authoritarian and authoritative; Disciplinarian; Immigrant mothers; Parenting styles; Teenagers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956349546     PISSN: 07380151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10560-009-0182-0     Document Type: Article

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