Social information processing in middle childhood: Relations to infant-mother attachment

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 327-348

  Ziv, Yair ^a   Oppenheim, David ^b   Sagi Schwartz, Abraham ^b  

^a Department of Child/Family Studies ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attachment; Middle childhood; Social information processing; Strange situation

Indexed keywords

AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 7244224991     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616730412331281511     Document Type: Article

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