Infant-mother attachment at one year predicts children's understanding of mixed emotions at six years

Social Development

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 161-178

  Steele, Howard ^a   Steele, Miriam ^b   Croft, Carla ^b   Fonagy, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adult attachment interview; Infant father attachment; Infant mother attachment; Mixed emotions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033416213     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00089     Document Type: Article

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