With a little help from my friends: Maternal social support, via parenting, promotes willingness to share in preschoolers born to young mothers

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-141

  Ensor, Rosie ^a   Hughes, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Preschoolers; Prosocial; Young mothers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649277311     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.643     Document Type: Article

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