It Takes Two to Tango: How Parents' and Adolescents' Personalities Link to the Quality of Their Mutual Relationship

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 928-941

  Denissen, Jaap J A ^a   van Aken, Marcel A G ^b   Dubas, Judith S ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

adolescence; parent child relationship quality; personality; temperament

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONSCIENCE; COOPERATION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; EXTRAVERSION; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS; TEMPERAMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AWARENESS; CONSCIENCE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 67651099168     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016230     Document Type: Article

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