Mind-Mindedness as a Multidimensional Construct: Appropriate and Nonattuned Mind-Related Comments Independently Predict Infant-Mother Attachment in a Socially Diverse Sample

Infancy

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 393-415

  Meins, Elizabeth ^a   Fernyhough, Charles ^a   de Rosnay, Marc ^b   Arnott, Bronia ^a   Leekam, Susan R ^b   Turner, Michelle ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 84861946122     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00087.x     Document Type: Article

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