Early Adolescent Perceptions of Neighborhood: Strengths, Structural Disadvantage, and Relations to Outcomes

Journal of Early Adolescence

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 866-895

  Witherspoon, Dawn P ^a   Hughes, Diane L ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early adolescents; Neighborhoods; Perceptions; Structural disadvantage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909982609     PISSN: 02724316     EISSN: 15525449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272431613510404     Document Type: Article

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