Predicting young children's externalizing problems: Interactions among effortful control, parenting, and child gender

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-134

  Karreman, Annemiek ^a   Van Tuijl, Cathy ^a   Van Aken, Marcel A G ^a   Deković, Maja ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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