Connecting with parents: Mothers' depressive symptoms and responsive behaviors in the regulation of social contact by one- and young two-year-olds

Social Development

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-50

  Dix, Theodore ^a   Cheng, Nina ^a   Day, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Child initiation; Maternal depression; Maternal responsiveness; Parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 58449104503     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00488.x     Document Type: Article

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