Frequency of parental report of problem behavior in children decreases with increasing maternal age at delivery

Psychological Reports

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 395-404

  Orlebeke, Jacob F ^a   Knol, Dirk L ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   Verhulst, Frank C ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NETHERLANDS; PARENT; PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TWINS;

ADULT; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NETHERLANDS; PARENTS; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032039668     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1998.82.2.395     Document Type: Article

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