Parenting and child externalizing behaviors: Are the associations specific or diffuse?

Aggression and Violent Behavior

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 201-215

  McKee, Laura ^a   Colletti, Christina ^a   Rakow, Aaron ^a   Jones, Deborah J ^b   Forehand, Rex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Externalizing problems; Internalizing problems; Parenting behavior; Parenting specificity

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 44749092178     PISSN: 13591789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avb.2008.03.005     Document Type: Review

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