Discrimination and adjustment among Chinese American adolescents: Family conflict and family cohesion as vulnerability and protective factors

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2403-2409

  Juang, Linda P ^a   Alvarez, Alvin A ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHINA; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PREJUDICE; RISK FACTORS; SAN FRANCISCO; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 78649855843     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.185959     Document Type: Article

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