Parenting as a goal-regulation process

Handbook of Dynamics in Parent-Child Relations

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 167-188

  Dix, Theodore ^a   Branca, Sylvia H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452229645.n9     Document Type: Chapter

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