Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality as a Moderator for the Influences of Parents' Religiousness on Adolescents' Religiousness and Adjustment

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1576-1587

  Kim Spoon, Jungmeen ^a   Longo, Gregory S ^a   McCullough, Michael E ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Externalizing symptoms; Intergenerational transmission; Internalizing symptoms; Parent Adolescent attachment; Religiousness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869082683     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-012-9796-1     Document Type: Article

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