Marital Conflict and Adolescent Distress: The Role of Adolescent Awareness

Child Development

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 333-350

  Harold, Gordon T ^b   Conger, Rand D ^a  

^a Center for Family Research   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTING OUT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONFLICT; CONTROL; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ACTING OUT; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AWARENESS; CHILD; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARRIAGE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031112648     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1997.tb01943.x     Document Type: Article

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