Taking stock of two decades of attachment transmission gap: Broadening the assessment of maternal behavior

Child Development

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1852-1865

  Bernier, Annie ^a   Matte Gagné, Célia ^a   Bélanger, Marie Ève ^a   Whipple, Natasha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907875614     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12236     Document Type: Article

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