Emotional relationships between mothers and infants: Knowns, unknowns, and unknown unknowns
- 31 January 2012
- journal article
- special section-commentaries
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Development and Psychopathology
- Vol. 24 (1) , 113-123
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.Keywords
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