Relations Among Intimate Partner Violence, Maternal Depressive Symptoms, and Maternal Parenting Behaviors

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1005-1020

  Gustafsson, Hanna C ^a   Cox, Martha J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Intimate partner violence; Parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866751823     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.01010.x     Document Type: Article

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