Marital aggression and children's responses to everyday interparental conflict

European Psychologist

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-28

  Cummings, E Mark ^a   Kouros, Chrystyna D ^a   Papp, Lauren M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's responses; Marital aggression; Marital conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947268807     PISSN: 10169040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040.12.1.17     Document Type: Article

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