AAI coherence predicts caregiving and care seeking behavior: Secure base script knowledge helps explain why

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 316-331

  Waters, Theodore E A ^a   Brockmeyer, Susan L ^b   Crowell, Judith A ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult Attachment Interview; attachment; couple problem solving; secure base script

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE; TIME; YOUNG ADULT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES; TIME; YOUNG ADULT; PSYCHOLOGY, CHILD;

EID: 84879152538     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: 14692988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2013.782657     Document Type: Article

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