Young children's self-concepts: Associations with child temperament, mothers' and fathers' parenting, and triadic family interaction

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 184-216

  Brown, Geoffrey L ^a   Mangelsdorf, Sarah C ^b   Neff, Cynthia ^c   Schoppe Sullivan, Sarah J ^d   Frosch, Cynthia A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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