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Predicting early emotion knowledge development among children of colour living in historically disinvested neighbourhoods: consideration of child pre-academic abilities, self-regulation, peer relations and parental education

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Pages 1562-1576 | Received 06 Jul 2018, Accepted 31 Jan 2019, Published online: 05 Mar 2019

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