Teenage pregnancy, attachment style, and depression: A comparison of teenage and adult pregnant women in a Portuguese series

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 123-138

  Figueiredo, Barbara ^a   Bifulco, Antonia ^b   Pacheco, Alexandra ^a   Costa, Raquel ^a   Magarinho, Rute ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Júlio Dirnis Maternity Hospital   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adolescent mothers; Attachment; Depression; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PORTUGAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 33745915845     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: 14692988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616730600785686     Document Type: Article

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