Mothers' Attachment Status as Determined by the Adult Attachment Interview Predicts Their 6-Year-Olds' Reunion Responses: A Study Conducted in Japan

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1553-1567

  Behrens, Kazuko Y ^a   Hesse, Erik ^b,c   Main, Mary ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adult Attachment Interview; cross cultural attachment; disorganized attachment; Japan; mother child attachment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECREATION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 36349025941     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.6.1553     Document Type: Article

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