Maternal interactive behaviour as a predictor of preschoolers' attachment representations among full term and premature samples

Early Human Development

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 349-354

  Miljkovitch, Raphaële ^a   Moran, Greg ^b   Roy, Caroline ^c   Jaunin, Lyne ^d   Forcada Guex, Margarita ^d   Pierrehumbert, Blaise ^d   Muller Nix, Carole ^d   Borghini, Ayala ^d  

^a Paragraphe EA 349 Université Paris 8   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attachment; Disorganization; Internal working models; Maternal sensitivity; Narratives; Prematurity; Representations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; SELF CONCEPT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84876127249     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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