Family Predictors of Maternal and Paternal Involvement in Programs for Young Children with Disabilities

Child Development

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 701-717

  Gavidia Payne, Susana ^a   Stoneman, Zolinda ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISABLED PERSON; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL STRESS; NEWBORN; PARENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISABLED PERSONS; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031205318     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1997.tb04231.x     Document Type: Article

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