Exploring Parent-Adolescent Communication About Gender: Results from Adolescent and Emerging Adult Samples

Sex Roles

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 108-118

  Epstein, Marina ^a   Ward, L Monique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Adolescent development; Emerging adulthood; Gender beliefs; Gender roles; Gender socialization; Parental communication; Sex roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958813640     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-011-9975-7     Document Type: Article

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