A neglectful parenting style moderates the effect of the verbal threat information pathway on children's heart rate responses to novel animals

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 473-482

  Price Evans, Khanya ^a   Field, Andy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Children; Parenting styles

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 49549098211     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465808004396     Document Type: Article

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