Discipline responses: Influences of parents' socioeconomic status, ethnicity, beliefs about parenting, stress, and cognitive-emotional processes

Journal of Family Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 380-400

  Pinderhughes, Ellen E ^a   Bates, John E ^b   Dodge, Kenneth A ^b   Pettit, Gregory S ^b   Zelli, Arnaldo ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PARENTING; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034257260     PISSN: 08933200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0893-3200.14.3.380     Document Type: Article

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