Fathering in a Beijing, Chinese sample: Associations with boys' and girls' negative emotionality and aggression

Conceptualizing and Measuring Father Involvement

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 160-187

  Yang, Chongming ^a   Hart, Craig H ^a   Nelson, David A ^a   Porter, Christin L ^a   Olsen, Susanne F ^a   Robinson, Clyde C ^a   Jin, Shenghua ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410609380     Document Type: Chapter

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