Mothers' Responsive Parenting Practices and Psychological Experience of Parenting as Mediators of the Relation Between Marital Conflict and Mother - Preadolescent Relational Negativity

Parenting

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 327-355

  Sturge Apple, Melissa L ^a   Gondoli, Dawn M ^b   Bonds, Darya D ^c   Salem, Lindsay N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33745785838     PISSN: 15295192     EISSN: 15327922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327922par0304_3     Document Type: Article

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