Young children's psychological selves: Convergence with maternal reports of child personality

Social Development

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 161-182

  Brown, Geoffrey L ^a   Mangelsdorf, Sarah C ^a   Agathen, Jean M ^b   Ho, Moon Ho ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Cook County Office of the Public Guardian ^*

^c Nanyang Technological College

Author keywords

Child personality; Mother child agreement; Personality structure; Self concept

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149042876     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00421.x     Document Type: Article

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