Toddlers' empathy-related responding to distress: Predictions from negative emotionality and maternal behavior in infancy

Infancy

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-121

  Spinrad, Tracy L ^a   Stifter, Cynthia A ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PLAY; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 33750144693     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in1002_1     Document Type: Article

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