Parenting knowledge and its role in the prediction of dysfunctional parenting and disruptive child behaviour

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 217-226

  Morawska, Alina ^a   Winter, L ^a   Sanders, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behaviour problems; Parenting competence; Parenting confidence; Parenting knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPETENCE; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENTING EDUCATION; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; VARIANCE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD REARING; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; ROLE PLAYING; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD REARING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROLE; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 65249140567     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2008.00929.x     Document Type: Article

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