Adolescent personality, problem behaviour and the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 237-254

  Manders, Willeke A ^a   Scholte, Ron H J ^a   Janssens, Jan M A M ^a   De Bruyn, Eric E J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mediation; Moderation; Parent adolescent relationship; Personality; Problem behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646534903     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.574     Document Type: Article

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