Adolescent siblings' looking glass self-orientations: Patterns of liabilities and associations with parenting

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 860-874

  Gamble, Wendy C ^a   Yu, Jeong Jin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Adjustment; Looking glass self orientations or metatheories; Parenting; Self representations; Sibling relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649202712     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-008-9276-9     Document Type: Article

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