Emotion talk among Mexican American and Anglo American mothers and children from two social classes

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 267-284

  Eisenberg, Ann R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

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