Reciprocal associations between parenting challenges and parents' personality development in young and middle adulthood

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 168-179

  Hutteman, Roos ^a,b   Bleidorn, Wiebke ^c   Keresteš, Gordana ^d   Brković, Irma ^d   Butković, Ana ^d   Denissen, Jaap J A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b International Max Planck Research School LIFE   (Germany)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Middle adulthood; Parent child conflict; Parenting self efficacy; Personality development; Stress; Young adulthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897984635     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.1932     Document Type: Article

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