Emotional relationships in mothers and infants: Culture-common and community-specific characteristics of dyads from rural and metropolitan settings in Argentina, Italy, and the United States

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-197

  Bornstein, Marc H ^a   Putnick, Diane L ^a   Suwalsky, Joan T D ^a   Venuti, Paola ^b   de Falco, Simona ^b   de Galperín, Celia Zingman ^c   Gini, Motti ^d   Tichovolsky, Marianne Heslington ^e  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BELGRANO   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

child adolescent development; cultural psychology; social development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855578888     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022110388563     Document Type: Article

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