The interactive effect of marital conflict and stress reactivity on externalizing and internalizing symptoms: The role of laboratory stressors

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-114

  Obradović, Jelena ^a   Bush, Nicole R ^b   Boyce, W Thomas ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79955070752     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579410000672     Document Type: Article

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