Parenting and health in mid-childhood: a longitudinal study.
BACKGROUND: Parenting and parent-child relationships influence children's emotional and social development and evidence exists that they may be life-course determinants of health. This study tests the hypothesis that adverse parenting in the early years predicts poor health in mid-childhood. METHODS...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Public Health Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 300 - 306 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2008
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