Family Environment in Inner-City African-American and Latino Parents/Caregivers: A Comparison of the Reliability of Instruments

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 288-296

  Groenenberg, Iris ^a   Sharma, Sushma ^a   Green, Barbara S ^a   Fleming, Sharon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Cronbach's alpha; Ethnicity; Family environment; Hispanic; Inner city; Internal consistency; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872658427     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-012-9578-0     Document Type: Article

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