Who's Controlling Whom? Infant Contributions to Maternal Play Behaviour

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 177-195

  Dixon Jr , Wallace E ^a   Smith, P Hull ^b  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance structure modeling; Habituation; Mother infant interaction; Play; Temperament

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038176557     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.283     Document Type: Article

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