Japanese parents' estimates of their own and their children's multiple intelligences: Cultural modesty and moderate differentiation

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 63-76

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Fukumoto, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Multiple intelligences; Parents; Parents' estimate; Self estimated intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649100308     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: 14685884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2008.00362.x     Document Type: Article

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