Adult attachment styles, early relationships, antenatal attachment, and perceptions of infant temperament: A study of first-time mothers

Personal Relationships

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 291-310

  Priel, Beatriz ^a   Besser, Avi ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 0034362818     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2000.tb00018.x     Document Type: Article

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