Teenage driving offers challenges and potential rewards for developmentalists

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 311-316

  Laird, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidents; Adolescence; Affective development; Cognitive development; Driving; Parenting; Peer relations; Psychomotor development

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855138277     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2011.00203.x     Document Type: Review

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