Parent-child talk about past emotional events: Association with child temperament and goodness-of-fit

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-210

  Bird, Amy ^a   Reese, Elaine ^a   Tripp, Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONALITY; EXPECTATION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NARRATIVE; NEW ZEALAND; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RATING SCALE; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 33746177116     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327647jcd0702_3     Document Type: Article

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