Parenting mediates the effects of income and cumulative risk on the development of effortful control

Social Development

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 631-649

  Lengua, Liliana J ^a   Kiff, Cara ^a   Moran, Lyndsey ^a   Zalewski, Maureen ^a   Thompson, Stephanie ^a   Cortes, Rebecca ^a   Ruberry, Erika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative risk; Effortful control; Low income; Parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904326021     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12071     Document Type: Article

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