Predictors of emotional problems and physical aggression among children of Hong Kong Chinese, Mainland Chinese and Filipino immigrants to Canada

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1011-1021

  Beiser, Morton ^a,b,c   Hamilton, Hayley ^c   Rummens, Joanna Anneke ^d   Oxman Martinez, Jacqueline ^e   Ogilvie, Linda ^f   Humphrey, Chuck ^f   Armstrong, Robert ^g  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotional disorder; Ethnicity; Immigrant children; Physical aggression; Regional effects

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIGRATION; PARENT; PERCEPTION; PHILIPPINES; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGGRESSION; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS; PHILIPPINES; PREJUDICE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77957204877     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0140-3     Document Type: Article

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