Social and emotional parenting: Mothering in a changing Chinese society

Asian American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-70

  Way, Niobe ^a   Okazaki, Sumie ^a   Zhao, Jing ^a   Kim, Joanna J ^a   Chen, Xinyin ^b   Yoshikawa, Hirokazu ^c   Jia, Yueming ^d   Deng, Huihua ^e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^d Education Development Center   (United States)

^e SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Chinese; Mothers; Parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875720235     PISSN: 19481985     EISSN: 19481993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031204     Document Type: Article

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