Young Children's Social Information Processing: Family Antecedents and Behavioral Correlates

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 838-849

  Runions, Kevin C ^a   Keating, Daniel P ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

behavior problems; parenting; psychosocial development; social information processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME;

CHILD; COGNITION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548186692     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.4.838     Document Type: Article

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