Parental psychopathology, marital quality, and the transition to parenthood

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-64

  Perren, Sonja ^a   Von Wyl, Agnes ^a   Simoni, Heidi ^a   Stadlmayr, Werner ^a,b   Bürgin, Dieter ^a   Von Klitzing, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; FAMILY; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENTHOOD; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; TRIADIC CAPACITY; CHILD PARENT RELATION; LIFE EVENT; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0038620398     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0002-9432.73.1.55     Document Type: Article

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