The interplay between expressed parental anxiety and infant behavioural inhibition predicts infant avoidance in a social referencing paradigm

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 144-156

  Aktar, Evin ^a   Majdandžić, Mirjana ^a   De Vente, Wieke ^a   Bögels, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

behavioural inhibition; expressed parental anxiety; parental anxiety disorders; Social referencing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; PARENTS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872378515     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02601.x     Document Type: Article

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