Parents' Personality and Infants' Temperament as Contributors to Their Emerging Relationship

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 744-759

  Kochanska, Grazyna ^a,b   Friesenborg, Amanda E ^a,b   Lange, Lindsey A ^a,b   Martel, Michelle M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EMOTION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PARENT; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; TEMPERAMENT; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMOTIONS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PARENTS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; TEMPERAMENT; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 2442496378     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.5.744     Document Type: Article

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