Parental employment status and adolescents’ health: The role of financial situation, parent-adolescent relationship and adolescents’ resilience

Psychology and Health

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 400-422

  Bacikova Sleskova, Maria ^a   Benka, Jozef ^a   Orosova, Olga ^a  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

adolescence; financial strain; parental employment status; parent adolescent relationship; resilience; self reported health

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; PARENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84921370916     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: 14768321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2014.976645     Document Type: Article

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