Profiles of Financial Stress Over Time Using Subgroup Analysis

Journal of Family and Economic Issues

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 51-64

  Valentino, Salem Wolk ^a   Moore, Julia E ^b   Cleveland, Michael J ^c   Greenberg, Mark T ^c   Tan, Xianming ^d  

^a Big Brothers Big Sisters of America   (United States)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Economic strain; Financial stress; Growth curves; Latent trajectory models; Subgroup analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899533873     PISSN: 10580476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10834-012-9345-9     Document Type: Article

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