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A Developmental Survey of Young Children's Attachments to Inanimate Objects
The Journal of genetic psychology, Vol.134(2), pp.165-178
06/01/1979
Web of Science ID: WOS:A1979HE05100001
Abstract
Research is described that established a set of norms for young children's attachments to inanimate objects. In Study 1, a maternal rating scale for pacifier attachment was behaviorally validated with 16 male and female infants, accompanied by their mothers. The relation between pre-experimental ratings by mothers and pacifier sucking in a controlled playroom was high (r = 0.88). In Study 2, mothers of 690 children, aged 1.5–63 mo, rated their children's attachments to pacifiers, blankets, and hard objects. Data are presented in terms of intensities of attachments and the percentages of children evidencing either strong or weak attachment to the 3 types of objects. Pacifier use declined between 3 and 24 mo. Attachments to hard objects were relatively constant across age. Blanket attachments were quadratically related to age, and were most intense at 18 mo.
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- Title
- A Developmental Survey of Young Children's Attachments to Inanimate Objects
- Publication Details
- The Journal of genetic psychology, Vol.134(2), pp.165-178
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Heldref Publications; United States
- Copyright
- © Heldref Publications
- Identifiers
- WOS:A1979HE05100001; 99380466743406600
- Academic Unit
- Psychology; Usha Kundu, MD College of Health
- Language
- English