Hurricane Katrina: Maternal Depression Trajectories and Child Outcomes

Current Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 515-523

  Lai, Betty S ^a   Tiwari, Ashwini ^a   Beaulieu, Brooke A ^a   Self Brown, Shannon ^a   Kelley, Mary Lou ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Depressive symptoms; Disasters; Growth mixture modeling; Parents; Posttraumatic stress symptoms; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945486311     PISSN: 10461310     EISSN: 19364733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-015-9338-6     Document Type: Article

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