Situation-specific child control: A visit to the dentist

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-21

  Weinstein, Philip ^a   Milgrom, Peter ^a   Hoskuldsson, Olafur ^a   Golletz, Daniel ^a   Jeffcott, Ellen ^a   Koday, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DENTIST; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; VARIANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; DENTAL ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029655358     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0005-7967(96)00057-I     Document Type: Article

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