Maternal posttraumatic stress symptoms and infant emotional reactivity and emotion regulation

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 487-503

  Bosquet Enlow, Michelle ^a,b   Kitts, Robert L ^a,b   Blood, Emily ^a,b   Bizarro, Andrea ^a   Hofmeister, Michelle ^a   Wright, Rosalind J ^c,d  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Infant; Maternal PTSD; Reactivity

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD CARE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MATERNAL STRESS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TEMPERAMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80052569982     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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