A transactional model of temperamental development: Evidence of a relationship between child temperament and maternal stress over five years

Social Development

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 326-340

  Pesonen, Anu Katriina ^a   Räikkönen, Katri ^a   Heinonen, Kati ^a   Komsi, Niina ^a   Järvenpää, Anna Liisa ^a   Strandberg, Timo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bidirectional; Stress; Temperament; Transaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449115763     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00427.x     Document Type: Article

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