The role of child gender and ethnicity in teacher-child relationship quality and children's behavioral adjustment in preschool

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 92-105

  Ewing, Allison R ^a   Taylor, Angela R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early school adjustment; Ethnicity; Gender; Head Start; Preschool; Teacher child relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349129293     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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