Personal and ethnic identity in Swedish adolescents and emerging adults

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

Volumn 2012, Issue 138, 2012, Pages 61-86

  Ferrer Wreder, Laura ^a   Trost, Kari ^b   Lorente, Carolyn Cass ^c   Mansoory, Shahram ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870665669     PISSN: 15203247     EISSN: 15348687     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1002/cad.20022     Document Type: Article

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