Parental sensitivity to infant distress: What do discrete negative emotions have to do with it?

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 337-348

  Mesman, Judi ^a   Oster, Harriet ^b   Camras, Linda ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distress; Dynamic systems; Evolution; Infant emotion; Maternal sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; NEWBORN; OBJECT RELATION; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84865062012     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: 14692988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2012.691649     Document Type: Article

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