Prevention Effects Ameliorate the Prospective Association Between Nonsupportive Parenting and Diminished Telomere Length

Prevention Science

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 171-180

  Brody, Gene H ^a   Yu, Tianyi ^a   Beach, Steven R H ^a   Philibert, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health promotion; Parent child relations; Psychological; Stress; Telomere shortening

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONFLICT; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

ADOLESCENT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84894666439     PISSN: 13894986     EISSN: 15736695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11121-014-0474-2     Document Type: Article

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