Associations among Attachment Classifications of Mothers, Fathers, and Their Infants

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 541-555

  Steele, Howard ^a   Steele, Miriam ^a   Fonagy, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; OBJECT RELATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERAMENT;

ADULT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHERS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 0030117114     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01750.x     Document Type: Article

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