Death awareness, maternal separation anxiety, and attachment style among first-time mothers - A terror management perspective

Death Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 737-756

  Taubman Ben Ari, Orit ^a   Katz Ben Ami, Liat ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; ISRAEL; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEPARATION ANXIETY;

ADULT; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; ISRAEL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS;

EID: 50949085196     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180802289622     Document Type: Article

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