Emotion regulation strategies and later externalizing behavior among European American and African American children

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 393-415

  Supplee, Lauren H ^a,b   Skuban, Emily Moye ^a   Shaw, Daniel S ^a   Prout, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; INFANT; MOTHER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; TIME;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMOTIONS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67651176253     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579409000224     Document Type: Article

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