Mainland Chinese adolescents' judgments and reasoning about self-determination and nurturance rights

Social Development

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 690-710

  Lahat, Ayelet ^a   Helwig, Charles C ^a   Yang, Shaogang ^b   Tan, Dingliang ^c   Liu, Chunqiong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (China)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Culture; Rights concepts; Social reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 67249128694     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00507.x     Document Type: Article

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