The Development of Self-Regulation in the First Four Years of Life

Child Development

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1091-1111

  Kochanska, Grazyna ^a   Coy, Katherine C ^c   Murray, Kathleen T ^b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROL; COOPERATION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIALIZATION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 0035409586     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00336     Document Type: Article

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