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Emotional relationships between mothers and infants: Knowns, unknowns, and unknown unknowns

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: An overview of the literature pertaining to the construct of emotional availability is presented, illustrated by a sampling of relevant studies. Methodological, statistical, and conceptual problems in the existing corpus of research are discussed, and suggestions for improving future investigations of this important construct are offered.

Source: Development and Psychopathology

DOI: 10.1017/s0954579411000708

Authors: Marc H. Bornstein, Joan T. D. Suwalsky, Dana A. Breakstone

Institutions: National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Language: English

Topic: Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Award: Child and Family Development across the First Three Decades