Mexican-Origin Youth's Cultural Orientations and Adjustment: Changes From Early to Late Adolescence

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1655-1671

  Updegraff, Kimberly A ^a   Umaña Taylor, Adriana J ^a   Mchale, Susan M ^b   Wheeler, Lorey A ^a   Perez Brena, Norma J ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; CULTURE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MEXICO; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866159938     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01800.x     Document Type: Article

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