Caregiver emotional expressiveness, child emotion regulation, and child behavior problems among head start families

Social Development

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 741-761

  McCoy, Dana Charles ^a   Raver, C Cybele ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior problems; Emotion regulation; Poverty; Socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054122063     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2011.00608.x     Document Type: Article

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