Do maternal stress and home environment mediate the relation between early income-to-need and 54-months attentional abilities?

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 525-552

  Dilworth Bart, Janean E ^a,c   Khurshid, Ayesha ^a   Vandell, Deborah Lowe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Human Development and Family Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Developmental ecology; Ecological systems theory; Preschool

Indexed keywords

EID: 35649022147     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.528     Document Type: Article

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