Maternal behaviour and children's early emotion regulation skills differentially predict development of children's reactive control and later effortful control

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 333-353

  Graziano, Paulo A ^a   Keane, Susan P ^b   Calkins, Susan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Development; Effortful control; Emotion regulation; Maternal behaviour; Temperament

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649466184     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.670     Document Type: Article

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