Shared Parenting, Parental Effort, and Life History Strategy: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 620-639

  Sotomayor Peterson, Marcela ^a   De Baca, Tomás Cabeza ^b   Figueredo, Aurelio José ^b   Smith Castro, Vanessa ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Universidad de San José   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

family emotional climate; Hispanics and European Americans (comparison); Latinos; life history strategy; parental effort; shared parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875795071     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022112455456     Document Type: Article

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