Psychiatry Research
Volume 125, Issue 3 , Pages 285-291 , 15 March 2004

Personal characteristics of adolescent prostitutes and rearing attitudes of their parents: a structural equation model

  • For-Wey Lung

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Military Kaohsiung General Hospital, No.2, Chung Cheng 1st Rd., Kaohsiung 802, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886-7-749-5919; fax: +886-7-749-8706
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  • Tsung-Jen Lin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Military Kaohsiung General Hospital, No.2, Chung Cheng 1st Rd., Kaohsiung 802, Taiwan, ROC
  • ,
  • Yi-Ching Lu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Military Kaohsiung General Hospital, No.2, Chung Cheng 1st Rd., Kaohsiung 802, Taiwan, ROC
  • ,
  • Bih-Ching Shu

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Allied Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC

Received 3 December 2002 ,Revised 6 September 2003 ,Accepted 22 December 2003.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2003.12.019

Psychiatry Research
Volume 125, Issue 3 , Pages 285-291 , 15 March 2004