The Moderator Effect of Community Size on Suffering from Social Problems among Rural Youth in Egypt

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension

Mokhtar Abd-Ella ¹ , Huda El-Lethee ² , Mohammed Ebad-Allah ³

1 - Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture-Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
2 - Department of Rural Family Development, Faculty of Home Economics-Al-Azhar University, Egypt
3 - Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture-Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.

Received: 2015-12-25 Accepted : 2015-12-25 Published : 2013-03-01

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