Measuring infant-mother attachment: Is the strange situation enough?

Social Development

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 143-169

  Clarke Stewart, Alison K ^a   Goossens, Frits A ^b   Allhusen, Virginia D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Assessment; Child care; Infant mother attachment; Strange situation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039301899     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00156     Document Type: Article

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