Parent Emotion Socialization Practices and Child Self-regulation as Predictors of Child Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Cardiac Variability

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 512-522

  Williams, Sarah R ^a   Woodruff Borden, Janet ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac reactivity; Child anxiety; Emotion regulation; Emotion socialization

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDERS; AROUSAL; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONTROL; SOCIALIZATION;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; AROUSAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; SELF-CONTROL; SOCIALIZATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84935922098     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-014-0492-0     Document Type: Article

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