TY - JOUR
T1 - Childhood vs. adolescence transitional object attachment, and its relation to mental health and parental bonding
AU - Bachar, Eytan
AU - Canetti, Laura
AU - Galilee-Weisstub, Esti
AU - Kaplan-DeNour, Atara
AU - Shalev, Arieh Y.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - 871 participants, 375 beys and 496 girls, mean age 16.7+1, were administered the Parental Bonding Instrument (P.B.I.), the Brief Symptom Inventory (B.S.I.), the General Well-Being Questionnaire (G.W.B.) and the Chestnut Lodge Transitional Object Scale. Results supported Winnicott's theory: participants reporting attachment to a Transitional Object (T.O.) in their childhood reported significantly more optimal maternal bonding than participants who were not attached to a T.O. Participants reporting attachment to a T.O. in adolescence had significantly more psychiatric symptoms and less general well-being. Adolescence T.O. attachment might be considered a marker of mental distress in the general, normal population.
AB - 871 participants, 375 beys and 496 girls, mean age 16.7+1, were administered the Parental Bonding Instrument (P.B.I.), the Brief Symptom Inventory (B.S.I.), the General Well-Being Questionnaire (G.W.B.) and the Chestnut Lodge Transitional Object Scale. Results supported Winnicott's theory: participants reporting attachment to a Transitional Object (T.O.) in their childhood reported significantly more optimal maternal bonding than participants who were not attached to a T.O. Participants reporting attachment to a T.O. in adolescence had significantly more psychiatric symptoms and less general well-being. Adolescence T.O. attachment might be considered a marker of mental distress in the general, normal population.
KW - Childhood vs. adolescence
KW - Parental bonding
KW - Psycho-pathology
KW - Transitional object
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0031952828&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1023/A:1022881726177
DO - 10.1023/A:1022881726177
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C2 - 9540239
AN - SCOPUS:0031952828
SN - 0009-398X
VL - 28
SP - 149
EP - 167
JO - Child Psychiatry and Human Development
JF - Child Psychiatry and Human Development
IS - 3
ER -