Attachment in Middle Childhood: Associations With Information Processing

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

Volumn 2015, Issue 148, 2015, Pages 47-61

  Zimmermann, Peter ^a   Iwanski, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; OBJECT RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; OBJECT ATTACHMENT;

EID: 84948989464     PISSN: 15203247     EISSN: 15348687     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1002/cad.20099     Document Type: Article

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