The assessment of effortful control in childhood: Questionnaires and the Test of Everyday Attention for Children compared

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-65

  Verstraeten, Katrien ^a,b   Vasey, Michael W ^c   Claes, Laurence ^a   Bijttebier, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Childhood; Effortful control

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349786472     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.08.016     Document Type: Article

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