The mediational role of effortful control and emotional dysregulation in the link between maternal responsiveness and turkish preschoolers' social competency and externalizing symptoms

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 459-479

  Orta, Irem Metin ^a   Corapci, Feyza ^b   Yagmurlu, Bilge ^a   Aksan, Nazan ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Effortful control; Emotion dysregulation; Emotion regulation; Externalizing; Maternal responsiveness; Social competency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885867173     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.1806     Document Type: Article

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