Fathers' parenting hassles and coping: Associations with emotional expressiveness and their sons' socioemotional competence

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-293

  Foster, Phillip A ^a   Reese Weber, Marla ^b   Kahn, Jeffrey H ^b  

^a Lincoln Christian College and Seminary   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood; Emotion; Fathering; Parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547359239     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.507     Document Type: Article

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