Examining teacher–child relationship quality across two countries

Educational Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 946-962

  Cadima, Joana ^a   Doumen, Sarah ^b   Verschueren, Karine ^b   Leal, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cross cultural comparison; measurement invariance; teacher child relationship quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888794765     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: 14695820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2013.864754     Document Type: Article

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