A process model of attachment-friend linkages: Hostile attribution biases, language ability, and mother-child affective mutuality as intervening mechanisms

Child Development

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1891-1906

  McElwain, Nancy L ^a   Booth Laforce, Cathryn ^b   Lansford, Jennifer E ^c   Wu, Xiaoying ^a   Justin Dyer, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FRIEND; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT;

EID: 56449130386     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01232.x     Document Type: Article

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