Predicting Infant Maltreatment in Low-Income Families: The Interactive Effects of Maternal Attributions and Child Status at Birth

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 234-243

  Bugental, Daphne Blunt ^a   Happaney, Keith ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; PERSONALITY TEST; POVERTY; PREMATURITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); RISK FACTORS;

EID: 1442354247     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.40.2.234     Document Type: Article

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