Meaning making in mothers' and children's narratives of emotional events

Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 579-594

  Fivush, Robyn ^a   Sales, Jessica McDermott ^a   Bohanek, Jennifer G ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL STATE LANGUAGE; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NARRATIVE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 46749105237     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210802150681     Document Type: Article

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