Attachment security and attentional breadth toward the attachment figure in middle childhood

Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 872-882

  Bosmans, Guy ^a   Braet, Caroline ^a   Koster, Ernst ^a   de Raedt, Rudi ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ATTENTION; CHILD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77951664310     PISSN: 15374416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15374410903258926     Document Type: Article

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