How is family support related to students' GPA scores? A longitudinal study

Higher Education

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 399-420

  Cheng, Wen ^a   Ickes, William ^b   Verhofstadt, Lesley ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Academic performance; College students; Family support; Longitudinal study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863557493     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-011-9501-4     Document Type: Article

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