Children's Responses to Everyday Marital Conflict Tactics in the Home

Child Development

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1918-1929

  Cummings, E Mark ^a   Goeke Morey, Marcie C ^a   Papp, Lauren M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CONFLICT; CONTROL; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PERSONALITY TEST; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD REACTIVE DISORDERS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 0347530283     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-8624.2003.00646.x     Document Type: Review

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