Parental Reactions to Toddlers' Negative Emotions and Child Negative Emotionality as Correlates of Problem Behavior at the Age of Three

Social Development

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 251-271

  Engle, Jennifer M ^a   Mcelwain, Nancy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Internalizing externalizing; Parenting; Temperament; Toddlers

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954471795     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2010.00583.x     Document Type: Article

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