Understanding the link between maternal adult attachment classifications and thoughts and feelings about emotions

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 153-170

  DeOliveira, Carey Anne ^a   Moran, Greg ^b   Pederson, David R ^b  

^a Ministry of Children and Youth Services Child and Parent Resource Institute   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescent mothers; Attachment; Attachment representations; Emotion regulation; Emotion socialization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERCEPTION; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 22544478467     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616730500135032     Document Type: Review

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