Denham S A
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1989 Jul;59(3):368-76. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1989.tb01672.x.
Mothers' and toddlers' discrete emotions, as well as their more general psycho-social functioning, were coded. Indices of maternal emotion and psychosocial functioning showed patterns of correlations with child indices and with each other. Two possible explanations of these patterns, child temperament and socialization of emotion, are discussed.