Marital relations and depression in school-age children: Links with family functioning and parental attitudes toward child rearing

Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 129-140

  Sugawara, Masumi ^a   Yagishita, Akiko ^a   Takuma, Noriko ^a   Koizumi, Tomoe ^a   Sechiyama, Haya ^a   Sugawara, Kensuke ^a   Kitamura, Toshinori ^a  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depression in middle childhood; Families; Family function; Marital relations; Parental attitudes toward child rearing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036022936     PISSN: 00215015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5926/jjep1953.50.2_129     Document Type: Article

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