Marital conflict and children's adjustment: Evaluation of the parenting process model

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1118-1134

  Schoppe Sullivan, Sarah J ^a   Schermerhorn, Alice C ^b   Cummings, E Mark ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Child outcomes; Longitudinal; Marital conflict; Parent child relations; Parenting; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 36049042551     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00436.x     Document Type: Article

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