Associations between first-time expectant women's representations of attachment and their physiological reactivity to infant cry

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1373-1391

  Ablow, Jennifer C ^a   Marks, Amy K ^a   Shirley Feldman, S ^a   Huffman, Lynne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BREATHING; CRYING; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INFANT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; OBJECT RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CRYING; CUES; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; RESPIRATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880333401     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12135     Document Type: Article

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