Affective qualities of sibling disputes, mothers' conflict attitudes, and children's theory of mind development

Social Development

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 857-874

  Randell, Angela C ^a   Peterson, Candida C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conflict; Mental state language; Siblings; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349223028     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00513.x     Document Type: Article

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