Mother-child attachment patterns and different types of anxiety symptoms: Is there specificity of relations?

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 663-674

  Brumariu, Laura E ^a   Kerns, Kathryn A ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety symptoms; Middle childhood; Mother child attachment

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79952276765     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-010-0195-0     Document Type: Article

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