Transactional and Cascading Relations Between Early Spanking and Children's Social-Emotional Development

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1054-1068

  Gromoske, Andrea N ^a   Maguire Jack, Kathryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Externalizing behavior; Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study; Internalizing behavior; Parent child relations; Spanking; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866747455     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.01013.x     Document Type: Article

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