Youth debt, mastery, and self-esteem: Class-stratified effects of indebtedness on self-concept

Social Science Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 727-741

  Dwyer, Rachel E ^a   McCloud, Laura ^b   Hodson, Randy ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class; Credit card debt; Debt; Educational loans; Stratification; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953171878     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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