Gender differences in parents' perceptions of their adult children's and their families' emotional expressivity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 559-564

  Heinhold, Alison M ^a   Kerr, Sandra L ^a   Palladino, Lisa ^a  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032036749     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00213-4     Document Type: Article

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