Mothers' and children's positive emotion: Relations and trajectories across four years

Social Development

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 799-821

  Sallquist, Julie ^a   Eisenberg, Nancy ^a   Spinrad, Tracy L ^a   Gaertner, Bridget M ^a   Eggum, Natalie D ^a   Zhou, Nianli ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Positive emotion; Socialization of emotion; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957114311     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2009.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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