An observational measure of children's behavioural style: Evidence supporting a multi-method approach to studying temperament

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 135-158

  Karp, Jennifer ^a   Serbin, Lisa A ^a   Stack, Dale M ^a   Schwartzman, Alex E ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children's behavioural style; Multi method approach; Observational measure; Temperament

Indexed keywords

EID: 10244243777     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.346     Document Type: Article

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