Attachment to transitional objects: role of maternal personality and mother-toddler interaction.
The origins of soft-object attachments were explored in terms of maternal personality and child temperament as measured by maternal questionnaires and by laboratory observation of child temperament and mother-toddler interactions. Toddlers' soft-object attachments were found to be predicted by the maternal variables of constraint and positive affectivity, the latter in combination with low child activity level.
Steir
A J
AJ
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va., USA.
Lehman
E B
EB
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009769:Object Attachment; D010551:Personality; D013694:Temperament