Child and Family Emotional Functioning: A Cross-National Examination of Families from China and the United States

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1444-1454

  Suveg, Cynthia ^a   Raley, James N ^a   Morelen, Diana ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Han, Rachel Z ^a   Campion, Scott ^a  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Context specific; Emotion regulation; Emotion socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916934256     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: 15732843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-013-9800-8     Document Type: Article

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