Are infant crying and maternal responsiveness during the first year related to infant-mother attachment at 15 months?

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 371-391

  Van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H ^a   Hubbard, Frans O A ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attachment; Crying; Infants; Mothers; Responsiveness; Strange Situation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYING; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST;

CRYING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85047675852     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616730010001596     Document Type: Article

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