Household food insufficiency, financial strain, work-family spillover, and depressive symptoms in the working class: The work, family, and health network study

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 126-133

  Okechukwu, Cassandra A ^a   Ayadi, Alison M El ^a   Tamers, Sara L ^a,b   Sabbath, Erika L ^a   Berkman, Lisa ^a,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEPRESSION; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RISK; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA COLLECTION; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857274317     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300323     Document Type: Article

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