Clarifying the link between parental psychological control and adolescents' depressive symptoms: Reciprocal versus unidirectional models

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 411-444

  Soenens, Bart ^a   Luyckx, Koen ^b   Vansteenkiste, Maarten ^a   Duriez, Bart ^c   Goossens, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Department of Developmental Personality and Social Psychology ^*

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