Growing Up Too Soon? Parentification Among Immigrant and Native Adolescents in Germany

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 880-893

  Titzmann, Peter F ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acculturation gap; Exhaustion; Language brokering; Parentification; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PARENTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84862232834     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-011-9711-1     Document Type: Article

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