Child Adjustment and Parent Efficacy Scale: Development and Initial Validation of a Parent Report Measure

Australian Psychologist

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 241-252

  Morawska, Alina ^a   Sanders, Matthew R ^a   Haslam, Divna ^a   Filus, Ania ^a   Fletcher, Renee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment; Child adjustment; Child behaviour; Parenting confidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904557995     PISSN: 00050067     EISSN: 17429544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ap.12057     Document Type: Article

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