The Association Between Overparenting, Parent-Child Communication, and Entitlement and Adaptive Traits in Adult Children

Family Relations

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 237-252

  Segrin, Chris ^a   Woszidlo, Alesia ^b   Givertz, Michelle ^c   Bauer, Amy ^a   Taylor Murphy, Melissa ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Family interaction; Family interactions and communications; Interpersonal and family communication; Parent child relations in later life; Parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858188764     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2011.00689.x     Document Type: Article

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