Loneliness, immigration background and self-identified ethnicity: a nationally representative study of adolescents in Denmark

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1977-1995

  Rich Madsen, Katrine ^a   Trab Damsgaard, Mogens ^a   Smith Jervelund, Signe ^b   Christensen, Ulla ^b   Stevens, Gonneke G W J M ^c   Walsh, Sophie ^d   Koushede, Vibeke ^a   Nielsen, Line ^a   Due, Pernille ^a   Holstein, Bjørn E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

adolescence; effect modification; immigration background; Loneliness; self identified ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENCE; ETHNIC MINORITY; ETHNICITY; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; QUALITY OF LIFE;

DENMARK;

EID: 84958049503     PISSN: 1369183X     EISSN: 14699451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1137754     Document Type: Article

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