Maternal reflective functioning, mother-infant affective communication, and infant attachment: Exploring the link between mental states and observed caregiving behavior in the intergenerational transmission of attachment

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 299-311

  Grienenberger, John ^a,d   Kelly, Kristen ^b   Slade, Arietta ^c  

^a WRIGHT INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective communication; AMBIANCE; Attachment; Caregiving behavior; Early intervention; Mentalization; Reflective functioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD CARE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISORIENTATION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 27744575210     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616730500245963     Document Type: Article

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