Parents’ Self-Reported Attachment Styles: A Review of Links with Parenting Behaviors, Emotions, and Cognitions

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 44-76

  Jones, Jason D ^a   Cassidy, Jude ^a   Shaver, Phillip R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

attachment style; close relationships; individual differences; interpersonal processes; parenting

Indexed keywords

CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIVIDUALITY; OBJECT RELATION; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF REPORT;

COGNITION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PARENTS; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84920666565     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: 15327957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088868314541858     Document Type: Article

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