Development of a cultural connectedness scale for first nations youth

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 249-259

  Snowshoe, Angela ^a,b   Crooks, Claire V ^a,b   Tremblay, Paul F ^a,b   Craig, Wendy M ^c   Hinson, Riley E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b CAMH Centre for Prevention Science   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assessment; Culture; First nations; Resilience; Youth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL CONNECTEDNESS; CULTURAL CONNECTEDNESS SCALE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FIRST NATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; URBAN AREA; WELLBEING; AMERICAN INDIAN; DEVICES; ETHNOLOGY; INUIT; ONTARIO; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; SASKATCHEWAN; STANDARDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INUITS; MALE; ONTARIO; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SASKATCHEWAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925668189     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0037867     Document Type: Article

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