Transracial, same-race adoptions, and the need for multiple measures of adolescent adjustment

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 577-583

  Burrow, Anthony L ^a   Finley, Gordon E ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOPTION; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SELF CONCEPT; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 8444239363     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0002-9432.74.4.577     Document Type: Article

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