Tracing changes in families who participated in the home-start parenting program: Parental sense of competence as mechanism of change

Prevention Science

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 263-274

  Deković, Maja ^a   Asscher, Jessica J ^b   Hermanns, Jo ^b   Reitz, Ellen ^a   Prinzie, Peter ^a   van den Akker, Alithe L ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Home Start; Mediators of program effects; Parental sense of competence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTHER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF CONCEPT; PSYCHOLOGY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHERS; PARENTING; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 77954623723     PISSN: 13894986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11121-009-0166-5     Document Type: Article

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