Children's exposure to intimate partner violence: Relations between parent-child concordance and children's adjustment

Violence and Victims

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-201

  Hungerford, Anne ^a   Ogle, Richard L ^a   Clements, Caroline M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's adjustment; Intimate partner violence; Measurement; Parent child agreement

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 77951627929     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.25.2.185     Document Type: Article

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