Adults' desires for children's emotions across 48 countries: Associations with individual and national characteristics

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 525-547

  Diener, Marissa L ^a,c   Lucas, Richard E ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Emotion; Gender; Individualism; Negative affect; Norms; Positive affect

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344693276     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022104268387     Document Type: Article

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