Maternal emotion socialization in maltreating and non-maltreating families: Implications for children's emotion regulation

Social Development

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 268-285

  Shipman, Kimberly L ^a,f   Schneider, Renee ^b   Fitzgerald, Monica M ^c   Sims, Chandler ^b   Swisher, Lisa ^d   Edwards, Anna ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e Marcus Institute   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Child abuse; Emotion regulation; Emotion socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247611565     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00384.x     Document Type: Article

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