Temperament and peer problems from early to middle childhood: Gene-environment correlations with negative emotionality and sociability

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1089-1109

  Hasenfratz, Liat ^a   Benish Weisman, Maya ^b   Steinberg, Tami ^c   Knafo Noam, Ariel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CRIME VICTIM; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PEER GROUP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS; TEMPERAMENT; TWINS;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRIME VICTIMS; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PEER GROUP; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 84973334677     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095457941500070X     Document Type: Article

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