Setting the stage: Early child and family characteristics as predictors of later loneliness in children with developmental disabilities

American Journal on Mental Retardation

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Howell, Angela ^a   Hauser Cram, Penny ^a   Kersh, Joanne E ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; EMOTIONALITY; FAMILY ENVIRONMENT SCALE; FAMILY LIFE; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; LONELINESS; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RATING SCALE; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN SYNDROME; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); EMOTIONS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONELINESS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33846965904     PISSN: 08958017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/0895-8017(2007)112[18:STSECA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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