Relatedness Between Children and Parents: Implications for Motivation

The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pomerantz, Eva M ^a   Cheung, Cecilia Sin Sze ^a   Qin, Lili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement; Attachment; Motivation; Parent child relations; Parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923534157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195399820.013.0019     Document Type: Chapter

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