Longitudinal Relations among Parental Emotional Expressivity, Children's Regulation, and Quality of Socioemotional Functioning

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-19

  Eisenberg, Nancy ^a   Valiente, Carlos ^a   Morris, Amanda Sheffield ^a,b   Fabes, Richard A ^a   Cumberland, Amanda ^a   Reiser, Mark ^a   Gershoff, Elizabeth Thompson ^a,d   Shepard, Stephanie A ^a,c   Losoya, Sandra ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FAMILY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONTROL;

AFFECT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL;

EID: 85047687835     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.39.1.3     Document Type: Article

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