Maternal discussions of mental states and behaviors: Relations to emotion situation knowledge in European American and immigrant Chinese children

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1490-1503

  Doan, Stacey N ^a   Wang, Qi ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIGRATION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIALIZATION;

CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 77956597489     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01487.x     Document Type: Article

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