Issues and challenges in studying parental control: Toward a new conceptualization

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 165-170

  Grolnick, Wendy S ^a   Pomerantz, Eva M ^b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Parenting; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 70749084222     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2009.00099.x     Document Type: Article

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