Wounding words: Maternal verbal aggression and children's adjustment

Journal of Family Violence

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-93

  Moore, Timothy E ^a   Pepler, Debra J ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b York University   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children's adjustment; Maternal verbal aggression

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748290089     PISSN: 08857482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10896-005-9007-x     Document Type: Article

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