Emotional availability in the mother-infant dyad as related to the quality of infant-mother attachment relationship

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-169

  Ziv, Yair ^a   Aviezer, Ora ^b   Gini, Motti ^b   Sagi, Abraham ^b   Koren Karie, Nina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ambivalent; Attachment; Emotional availability; Insecure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; ISRAEL; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; ISRAEL; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0034280288     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616730050085536     Document Type: Article

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