The relations of mothers' negative expressivity to children's experience and expression of negative emotion

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 215-235

  Valiente, Carlos ^a   Eisenberg, Nancy ^a   Shepard, Stephanie A ^a   Fabes, Richard A ^a   Cumberland, Amanda J ^a   Losoya, Sandra H ^a   Spinrad, Tracy L ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's distress; Children's emotions; Emotional expressivity; Maternal emotion; Multimethod

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIENCE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBSERVATION;

EID: 1842630993     PISSN: 01933973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2004.02.006     Document Type: Article

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