Relations between children's attachments to their mothers and to security blankets. J Fam Psychol 2004 Sep;18(3):453-8
Date
09/24/2004Pubmed ID
15382970DOI
10.1037/0893-3200.18.3.453Scopus ID
2-s2.0-4644257394 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 7 CitationsAbstract
Are attachments to security objects and mothers related? Do children securely and insecurely attached to mothers use security blankets differently? Following the Strange Situation procedure (M. D. S. Ainsworth, M. C. Blehar, E. Waters, & S. Wall, 1978), 67 toddlers were left alone in a novel playroom with a stranger and their blanket. Although being blanket attached was unrelated to their security of attachment to mothers, avoidantly and securely attached children adjusted differently depending on their blanket attachments. Blanket-attached children also classified as avoidantly attached to mothers remained longer than did blanket-nonattached maternally avoidant, blanket-attached maternally secure, and blanket- blanketnonattached maternally secure children. Blanket-attached, maternally avoidant children may nonattached have relied on blankets as support to allay distress during separation. Availability of security blankets produces different adaptations to maternal separations among avoidantly and securely attached children.
Author List
Donate-Bartfield E, Passman RHAuthor
Evelyn Donate-Bartfield PhD Associate Professor in the Marquette University School of Dentistry department at Marquette UniversityMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Adaptation, PsychologicalAnxiety, Separation
Avoidance Learning
Female
Humans
Infant
Male
Mother-Child Relations
Object Attachment
Personality Assessment
Social Environment
