Emotion Socialization by Mothers and Fathers: Coherence among Behaviors and Associations with Parent Attitudes and Children's Social Competence

Social Development

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 412-430

  Baker, Jason K ^a   Fenning, Rachel M ^a   Crnic, Keith A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Parenting; Social competence; Socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954567776     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2010.00585.x     Document Type: Article

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