Poor infant soothability and later insecure-ambivalent attachment: Developmental change in phenotypic markers of risk or two measures of the same construct?

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 215-225

  Mills Koonce, W Roger ^a   Propper, Cathi B ^a   Barnett, Melissa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Emotional development; Maternal sensitivity; Soothability; Temperament

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MOOD DISORDER; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERAMENT;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD REARING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENTING; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84858291857     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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