Compassionate love buffers stress-reactive mothers from fight-or-flight parenting

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 36-43

  Miller, Jonas G ^a   Kahle, Sarah ^a   Lopez, Monica ^a   Hastings, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic; Compassionate love; Parasympathetic; Parenting; Sympathetic

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOVE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOVE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PARENTING; SOCIALIZATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84925759780     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0038236     Document Type: Article

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