The Relationship of Parent Self-Focused Negative Attributions to Ratings of Parental Overprotection, Perceived Child Vulnerability, and Parenting Stress

Families, Systems and Health

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 147-163

  Carpentier, Melissa Y ^a   Mullins, Larry L ^b   Wolfe Christensen, Cortney ^b   Chaney, John M ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attributions; overprotection; parents; stress; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 48349108220     PISSN: 10917527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.26.2.147     Document Type: Article

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