Parenting Styles and Children’s Emotional Intelligence: What do We Know?

The Family Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-62

  Alegre, Alberto ^a  

^a EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotional intelligence; parental coaching; parental demandingness; parenting styles

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650299034     PISSN: 10664807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1066480710387486     Document Type: Article

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