Family Achievement Guilt and Mental Well-being of College Students

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2031-2037

  Covarrubias, Rebecca ^a   Romero, Andrea ^b   Trivelli, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Family achievement guilt; First generation college student; Mental well being; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930541692     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-014-0003-8     Document Type: Article

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