Tridimensional Acculturation and Adaptation Among Jamaican Adolescent-Mother Dyads in the United States

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1486-1493

  Ferguson, Gail M ^a   Bornstein, Marc H ^b   Pottinger, Audrey M ^c  

^a KNOX COLLEGE   (Canada)

^b Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAMAICA; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MOTHER; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866155330     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01787.x     Document Type: Article

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