Children's perceptions of family relationships as assessed in a doll story completion task: Links to parenting, social competence, and externalizing behavior

Social Development

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 551-569

  Laible, Deborah ^a   Carlo, Gustavo ^b   Torquati, Julia ^b   Ontai, Lenna ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Externalizing behavior; Parenting; Representations of relationships; Social competence

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044286317     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2004.00283.x     Document Type: Article

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