Is religiosity related to better parenting?: Disentangling religiosity from religious cognitive style

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1287-1307

  Duriez, Bart ^a   Soenens, Bart ^b   Neyrinck, Bart ^a   Vansteenkiste, Maarten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cognitive style; Parental goal promotion; Parenting; Parenting style; Religiosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 69149091981     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X09334168     Document Type: Article

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