Parental reactions to children's negative emotions: Longitudinal relations to quality of children's social functioning

Child Development

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 513-534

  Eisenberg, Nancy ^a   Fabes, Richard A ^b   Shepard, Stephanie A ^b   Guthrie, Ivanna K ^b   Murphy, Bridget C ^b   Reiser, Mark ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD REARING; EMOTION; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROSIS; PARENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIALIZATION; TEMPERAMENT;

AGE FACTORS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD REARING; EMOTIONS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIALIZATION; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 0033090729     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00037     Document Type: Article

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