Shedding light on the specificity of school-aged children’s attachment narratives

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 188-211

  Borelli, Jessica L ^a   Somers, Jennifer A ^a   West, Jessica L ^b   Coffey, John K ^c   Shmueli Goetz, Yael ^d  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attachment; Child Attachment Interview; Emotion reactivity; Middle childhood; Validity; Word count

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

CHEMISTRY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALIVA; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; NARRATION; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84954537994     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: 14692988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2015.1134605     Document Type: Article

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