Economie pressure, parent personality and child development: An interactionist analysis

Historical Social Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-194

  Conger, Rand D ^a   Schofield, Thomas K ^a   Conger, Katherine J ^a   Neppl, Tricia K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Generations; Child development; Economic pressure; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953484238     PISSN: 01726404     EISSN: 09366784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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