Development and Validation of a Quantitative Measure of Intensive Parenting Attitudes

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 621-636

  Liss, Miriam ^a   Schiffrin, Holly H ^a   Mackintosh, Virginia H ^a   Miles McLean, Haley ^a   Erchull, Mindy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Division of household labor; Intensive mothering ideology; Parenting; Scale development; Work status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878908967     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-012-9616-y     Document Type: Article

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