Parental socialization, vagal regulation, and preschoolers' anxious difficulties: Direct mothers and moderated fathers

Child Development

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-64

  Hastings, Paul D ^a   Sullivan, Caroline ^a   McShane, Kelly E ^a   Coplan, Robert J ^b   Utendale, William T ^a   Vyncke, Johanna D ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROL; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIALIZATION; TEMPERAMENT; VAGUS NERVE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PARENTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIALIZATION; TEMPERAMENT; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 38849089942     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01110.x     Document Type: Article

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