Reminiscing style during conversations about emotion-laden events and effects of attachment security among Italian mother- child dyads

Social Development

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 702-718

  Coppola, Gabrielle ^a   Ponzetti, Silvia ^a   Vaughn, Brian E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child's security; Positive and negative emotional events; Reminiscing conversations; State of mind with respect to attachment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908112338     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12066     Document Type: Article

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