Mothers' teaching strategies and children's effortful control: A longitudinal study

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1294-1308

  Eisenberg, Nancy ^a   Vidmar, Maša ^b   Spinrad, Tracy L ^a   Eggum, Natalie D ^a   Edwards, Alison ^a   Gaertner, Bridget ^a   Kupfer, Anne ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Educational Research Institute   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Effortful control; Regulation; Socialization; Teaching strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956752946     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020236     Document Type: Article

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