Mothers' Self-Reported Control of Their Preschool Children's Emotional Expressiveness: A Longitudinal Study of Associations with Infant-Mother Attachment and Children's Emotion Regulation

Social Development

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 477-495

  Berlin, Lisa J ^a   Cassidy, Jude ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Emotion socialization; Infant mother attachment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345059987     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00244     Document Type: Article

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