Ethnic differences in the developmental significance of parentification

Family Process

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 267-287

  Khafi, Tamar Y ^a   Yates, Tuppett M ^a   Luthar, Suniya S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Ecological theory; Ethnic differences; Parent child relations; Parentification; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904648491     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/famp.12072     Document Type: Article

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