Journal of Pediatric Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 3 , Pages 197-205 , June 2007

Maternal Demandingness and Responsiveness as Predictors of Adolescent Abstinence

  • Mary F. Cox, PhD, APRN

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence and reprint request to: Mary Cox, College of Nursing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.

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 Persons interested in obtaining data files from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health should contact Add Health Project, Carolina Population Center, 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-2524 (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth).

PII: S0882-5963(06)00335-6

doi: 10.1016/j.pedn.2006.08.005

Journal of Pediatric Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 3 , Pages 197-205 , June 2007

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