Mother-child role confusion, child adjustment problems, and the moderating roles of child temperament and sex
Role confusion is a deviation in the parent- child relationship such that a parent looks to a child to meet the parent's emotional needs and abdicates, in part, the parental role in exchange for care, intimacy, or peer support from the child. In addition, a child may initiate role-confused beha...
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Language: | English |
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American Psychological Association Inc.
2018
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