Preschoolers' Emotional Control in the Disappointment Paradigm and Its Relation to Temperament, Emotional Knowledge, and Family Expressiveness

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1406-1419

  Garner, Pamela W ^a,b   Power, Thomas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TEMPERAMENT;

AFFECT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 0030207711     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01804.x     Document Type: Article

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