Communicating feelings: Links between mothers' representations of their infants, parenting, and infant emotional development

Parenting Representations: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 109-148

  Rosenblum, Katherine L ^a   Dayton, Carolyn J ^b   McDonough, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511499869.005     Document Type: Chapter

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