The Interplay Between Parents and Peers as Socializing Influences in Children's Development

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 263-280

  Reich, Stephanie M ^a   Vandell, Deborah Lowe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's interactions, with parents and peers different social opportunities; Family adversity, exacerbating factor to negative influence of peers; Gene environment correlations manifesting in passive and active ways; Interplay between parents and peers as socializing influences in children's development; Links from parent child relationships to children's interactions with peers; National institute of child health and human development early child care research network; Parent and peer relations within the broader social context; Parents and peers direct interaction bronfenbrenner's mesosystem; Parke and colleagues, tripartite model parents influencing their children's relations through their child rearing practices, roles as instructor and social manager; Smaller, body of literature examining role of parents and peers on child development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886318756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390933.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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