Quality of early family relationships and individual differences in the timing of pubertal maturation in girls: A longitudinal test of an evolutionary model

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 387-401

  Ellis, Bruce J ^a   McFadyen Ketchum, Steven ^b   Dodge, Kenneth A ^b   Pettit, Gregory S ^b   Bates, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FAMILY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBERTY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FAMILY; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBERTY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033176321     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.77.2.387     Document Type: Article

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