Enuresis, firesetting, and cruelty to animals: Does the ego triad show predictive validity?

Adolescence

Volumn 36, Issue 143, 2001, Pages 460-466

  Slavkin, Michael Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARSON; ARTICLE; CHILD; ENURESIS; HUMAN; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; OBJECT RELATION; PERIODICITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENURESIS; FIRESETTING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; PERIODICITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SELF CONCEPT; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0347236870     PISSN: 00018449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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