Parental conditional regard as a predictor of deficiencies in young children's capacities to respond to sad feelings

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 465-477

  Roth, Guy ^a   Assor, Avi ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Emotion suppression; Parental conditional regard

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649454526     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.676     Document Type: Article

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