Parental socialization of emotion expression: Gender differences and relations to child adjustment

Emotion

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 80-88

  Chaplin, Tara M ^a,c   Cole, Pamela M ^a   Zahn Waxler, Carolyn ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FATHER; FEMALE; GAME; GENDER; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIALIZATION;

ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 15244363173     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.5.1.80     Document Type: Article

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