Spanish parents' emotion talk and their children's understanding of emotion

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Aznar, Ana ^a   Tenenbaum, Harriet R ^b  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children's socialization of emotions; Children's understanding of emotions; Culture; Emotion understanding; Parent child emotion talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885334891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00670     Document Type: Article

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