Linking maternal efficacy beliefs, developmental goals, parenting practices, and child competence in rural single-parent African American families

Child Development

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1197-1208

  Brody, Gene H ^a   Flor, Douglas L ^b   Gibson, Nicole Morgan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; HUMAN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIALIZATION;

ACHIEVEMENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GOALS; HUMANS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PARENTING; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 0033192276     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00087     Document Type: Article

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