Marital and severe parent-to-adolescent physical aggression in clinic-referred families: Mother and adolescent reports on co-occurrence and links to child behavior problems

Journal of Family Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-19

  Mahoney, Annette ^a   Donnelly, William O ^b   Boxer, Paul ^a   Lewis, Terri ^a,c  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Children's Resource Center   (United States)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 0242669203     PISSN: 08933200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0893-3200.17.1.3     Document Type: Article

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