Childrearing violence and child adjustment after exposure to Kenyan post-election violence

Psychology of Violence

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 37-50

  Skinner, Ann T ^a   Oburu, Paul ^b   Lansford, Jennifer E ^a   Bacchini, Dario ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASENO UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Child adjustment; child externalizing behavior; corporal punishment; parenting; parenting violence; political violence; sectarian violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892561332     PISSN: 21520828     EISSN: 2152081X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033237     Document Type: Article

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