Focusing on the Positive: A Review of the Role of Child Positive Affect in Developmental Psychopathology

Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 97-124

  Davis, Molly ^a   Suveg, Cynthia ^a  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Child; Developmental psychopathology; Emotion; Positive affect; Temperament

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; AFFECT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TEMPERAMENT;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; AFFECT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 84899957947     PISSN: 10964037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10567-013-0162-y     Document Type: Review

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