Maternal Expressed Emotion Predicts Children's Antisocial Behavior Problems: Using Monozygotic-Twin Differences to Identify Environmental Effects on Behavioral Development

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-161

  Caspi, Avshalom ^a,b   Moffitt, Terrie E ^a,b   Morgan, Julia ^b   Rutter, Michael ^b   Taylor, Alan ^b   Arseneault, Louise ^b   Tully, Lucy ^b   Jacobs, Catherine ^b   Kim Cohen, Julia ^a,b   Polp Tomas, Monica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTHER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPATHY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION; TWINS;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASES IN TWINS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHERS; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 10744229898     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.40.2.149     Document Type: Article

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