Are effective teachers like good parents? Teaching styles and student adjustment in early adolescence

Child Development

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 287-301

  Wentzel, Kathryn R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIALIZATION; STUDENT; TEACHING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ASPIRATIONS (PSYCHOLOGY); CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MOTIVATION; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; REINFORCEMENT, SOCIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIALIZATION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EID: 0010724818     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00406     Document Type: Review

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