Pathways to conscience: Early mother-child mutually responsive orientation and children's moral emotion, conduct, and cognition

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-34

  Kochanska, Grazyna ^a   Forman, David R ^a   Aksan, Nazan ^a   Dunbar, Stephen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conscience; Developmental pathways; Mother child relationship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONSCIENCE; EMOTION; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL COMPLIANCE; MORALITY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS;

EID: 13544277078     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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