Personality and demographic characteristics of mothers and their ratings of their 3- to 10-year-old children's temperament

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 397-417

  Mednick, Birgitte R ^a   Hocevar, Dennis ^a   Schulsinger, Charlotte ^b   Baker, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kommunehospitalet ^*  (Denmark)

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