Theorizing about family quality of life

Social Indicators Research Series

Volumn 41, Issue , 2011, Pages 241-278

  Zuna, Nina ^a   Summers, Jean Ann ^b   Turnbull, Ann P ^b   Hu, Xiaoyi ^b   Xu, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Family Quality; Intellectual Disability; Performance Concept; Theoretical Linkage; Unify Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85200483704     PISSN: 13876570     EISSN: 22150099     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9650-0_15     Document Type: Chapter

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