Mother-Child Emotional Availability in Ecological Perspective: Three Countries, Two Regions, Two Genders

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 666-680

  Bornstein, Marc H ^a   Putnick, Diane L ^a   Heslington, Marianne ^a   Gini, Motti ^a   Suwalsky, Joan T D ^a   Venuti, Paola ^a   de Falco, Simona ^a   Giusti, Zeno ^a   de Galperín, Celia Zingman ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

culture; emotional availability; infancy; parenting

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; INFANT; ITALY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ARGENTINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 44149114530     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.3.666     Document Type: Article

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