Executive Function in Low Birth Weight Preschoolers: The Moderating Effect of Parenting

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1551-1562

  Camerota, Marie ^a   Willoughby, Michael T ^b   Cox, Martha ^a   Greenberg, Mark T ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive function; Latent growth curve models; Low birth weight; Parenting

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PARENTING;

EID: 84944276756     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-015-0032-9     Document Type: Article

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