Manifestations of autonomy and relatedness in mothers' accounts of their ethnotheories regarding child care across five cultural communities

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 613-628

  Krtner, Joscha ^a   Keller, Heidi ^a   Lamm, Bettina ^a   Abels, Monika ^a   Yovsi, Relindis D ^a   Chaudhary, Nandita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Cross cultural differences; Discourse content; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548142656     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022107305242     Document Type: Article

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