Association Between the Serotonin Transporter Promoter Polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) and Adult Unresolved Attachment

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 64-76

  Caspers, Kristin M ^a   Paradiso, Sergio ^a   Yucuis, Rebecca ^a   Troutman, Beth ^a   Arndt, Stephan ^a,b   Philibert, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Iowa Consortium for Substance Abuse Research and Evaluation   (United States)

Author keywords

5 HTTLPR; emotion regulation; serotonin; unresolved attachment

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PROMOTER REGION; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58449108275     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014026     Document Type: Article

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