Showing and telling about emotions: Interrelations between facets of emotional competence and associations with classroom adjustment in Head Start preschoolers

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1170-1192

  Miller, Alison L ^a   Fine, Sarah E ^a   Gouley, Kathleen Kiely ^b   Seifer, Ronald ^a   Dickstein, Susan ^a   Shields, Ann ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGGRESSION; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LONELINESS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONTROL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33751344623     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930500405691     Document Type: Article

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