Mothers' time with infant and time in employment as predictors of mother-child relationships and children's early development

Child Development

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 467-482

  Huston, Aletha C ^a   Aronson, Stacey Rosenkrantz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; EMPLOYMENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; EMPLOYMENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PARENTING; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 17444427168     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00857.x     Document Type: Article

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