Security of attachment and parenting: Homeless and low-income housed mothers and infants

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 337-346

  Easterbrooks, M Ann ^a   Graham, Christine A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD REARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFANT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AID TO FAMILIES WITH DEPENDENT CHILDREN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENTING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0032766149     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0080408     Document Type: Article

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