Assessing early childhood social and emotional development: Key conceptual and measurement issues

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue , 2016, Pages 42-48

  Jones, Stephanie M ^a   Zaslow, Martha ^b,c   Darling Churchill, Kristen E ^c   Halle, Tamara G ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Society for Research in Child Development   (United States)

^c CHILD TRENDS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual clarity; Constructs and subdomains; Early childhood; Measurement; Social and emotional development

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT;

EID: 84960157758     PISSN: 01933973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2016.02.008     Document Type: Article

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