Neighborhoods, Social Support, and African American Adolescents' Mental Health Outcomes: A Multilevel Path Analysis

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 858-874

  Hurd, Noelle M ^a   Stoddard, Sarah A ^b   Zimmerman, Marc A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONTROL; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; PERCEPTION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84877323460     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12018     Document Type: Article

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