Social-emotional well-being and resilience of children in early childhood settings – PERIK: An empirically based observation scale for practitioners

Early Years

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-57

  Mayr, Toni ^a   Ulich, Michaela ^a  

^a State Institute for Early Childhood Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

early childhood settings; observation scale; resilience; social emotional well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053615884     PISSN: 09575146     EISSN: 14724421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09575140802636290     Document Type: Article

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