Six-Week Postpartum Maternal Self-Criticism and Dependency and 4-Month Mother-Infant Self- and Interactive Contingencies

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1360-1376

  Beebe, Beatrice ^a   Jaffe, Joseph ^a   Buck, Karen ^a   Chen, Henian ^a   Cohen, Patricia ^a   Blatt, Sidney ^b   Kaminer, Tammy ^c   Feldstein, Stanley ^d   Andrews, Howard ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c independent practice   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

maternal dependency; maternal self criticism; mother child relations; mother infant contingency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PUERPERIUM; RECOGNITION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; TOUCH; VIDEORECORDING; VISION; VOICE;

COMMUNICATION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; TOUCH; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VISION; VOICE;

EID: 36348993770     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.6.1360     Document Type: Article

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