Maternal reports of adaptive behaviours in young children: Urban-rural and gender comparisons in Italy and United States

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 403-424

  Bornstein, Marc H ^a   Giusti, Zeno ^a   Leach, Diane B ^a   Venuti, Paola ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive behaviour; Culture; Gender; Region

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844609417     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.414     Document Type: Article

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