Mothers' representations of relationships with their children: Relations with parenting behavior, mother characteristics, and child disability status

Social Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 455-472

  Button, Suzanne ^a   Pianta, Robert C ^b   Marvin, Robert S ^c  

^a The Astor Home for Children   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Caregiving; Child disability; Maternal representations; Parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035615979     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00175     Document Type: Article

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