Do You See What I See? Parent and Child Reports of Parental Monitoring of Media

Family Relations

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 470-487

  Gentile, Douglas A ^a   Nathanson, Amy I ^b   Rasmussen, Eric E ^b   Reimer, Rachel A ^c   Walsh, David A ^d  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DES MOINES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Walsh Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Active mediation; Media effects; Middle childhood; Parental monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861730018     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00709.x     Document Type: Article

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