Acculturation or development? autonomy expectations among ethnic german immigrant adolescents and their native german age-mates

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1640-1654

  Titzmann, Peter F ^a   Silbereisen, Rainer K ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; GERMANY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIGRATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CULTURE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; GERMANY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; RUSSIA;

EID: 84866146737     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01799.x     Document Type: Article

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