American and Chinese Early Adolescents' Inclusion of Their Relationships With Their Parents in Their Self-Construals

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 792-807

  Pomerantz, Eva M ^a   Qin, Lili ^a   Wang, Qian ^b   Chen, Huichang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFFECT; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66149179369     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01298.x     Document Type: Article

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