Longitudinal Links Between Spanking and Children's Externalizing Behaviors in a National Sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American Families

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 838-843

  Gershoff, Elizabeth T ^a   Lansford, Jennifer E ^b   Sexton, Holly R ^a   Davis Kean, Pamela ^c   Sameroff, Arnold J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD REARING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; NEGRO; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUNISHMENT; RACE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD REARING; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; PARENTS; PUNISHMENT;

EID: 84860486218     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01732.x     Document Type: Article

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