Touching behaviors of infants of depressed mothers during normal and perturbed interactions

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-194

  Moszkowski, Robin J ^a   Stack, Dale M ^a   Girouard, Nadine ^a   Field, Tiffany M ^b   Hernandez Reif, Maria ^b   Diego, Miguel ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant touch; Maternal depression; Maternal emotional availability; Mother infant interactions; Still face and separation procedures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MATERNAL DISEASE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NURTURING BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TOUCH;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMMUNICATION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOUCH; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62149093967     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.12.009     Document Type: Article

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