Race/Ethnicity and Family Contact: Toward a Behavioral Measure of Familialism

Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 251-268

  Comeau, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

contact; familialism; familism; interaction; Latino

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861627740     PISSN: 07399863     EISSN: 15526364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0739986311435899     Document Type: Article

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