Couples' Cultural Values, Shared Parenting, and Family Emotional Climate Within Mexican American Families

Family Process

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 218-233

  Sotomayor Peterson, Marcela ^a   Figueredo, Aurelio J ^b   Christensen, Donna H ^c   Taylor, Angela R ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crianza compartida; Expresividad emocional familiar; Family emotion expressiveness; Mexican cultural values; Shared parenting; Valores culturales Mexicanos

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRY; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURE; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); EMOTIONS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEXICO; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENTING; PARENTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862246971     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01396.x     Document Type: Article

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