Are children more angered and distressed by man-child than woman-child arguments and by interadult versus adult-child disputes?

Social Development

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 162-181

  Harger, JoAnn ^a   El Sheikh, Mona ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Emotions; Marital conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038103834     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00227     Document Type: Review

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