When do siblings compromise? associations with children's descriptions of conflict issues, culpability, and emotions

Social Development

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 838-857

  Recchia, Holly E ^a   Howe, Nina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conflict; Emotion; Middle childhood; Siblings; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957168551     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2009.00567.x     Document Type: Article

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