Social Referencing and Child Anxiety: The Evolutionary Based Role of Fathers’ Versus Mothers’ Signals

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1268-1277

  Möller, Eline L ^a   Majdandžić, Mirjana ^a   Vriends, Noortje ^a   Bögels, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Child anxiety; Evolution; Fathers; Sex differences; Social referencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879353205     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-013-9787-1     Document Type: Article

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