Individuality in responses of children to similar environmental situations.
Individuality in responses of children to similar environmental situations.
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儿童对相似环境情况的反应具有个性。
DOI:
10.1176/ajp.117.9.798
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发表时间:
1961
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通讯作者:
L. Robbins
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作者:
A. Thomas;H. Birch;S. Chess;L. Robbins
Prevalent in psychiatry is the view that the process of socialization in childhood necessarily involves a series of traumata and frustrations. Thus, an influential worker in this field states of weaning that “even under the most favorable circumstances, this stage leaves a residue of a primary sense of evil and doom and of a universal nostalgia for a lost paradise”(6), of toilet-training that “bowel and bladder training has become the most obviously disturbing item of child training in wide circles of our society”(7), and of the response to siblings as involving “jealousy and rivalry... now come to a climax in a final contest for a favored position with the mother; the inevitable failure leads to resignation, guilt and anxiety”(8). So pervasive is the influence of this attitude that even an investigator who has himself demonstrated that sucking drive in infancy is at least in part the consequence of opportunities to suck rather than the expression of an innate oral drive states (5), in a recent publication remarks that “the weaning process, except under the most fortunate circumstances, is bound to be frustrating to the child”( 14). Such statements involve the assumption that change in established patterns of behavior related to physiologic and social needs of the child is in and of itself frustrating. Thus, toilet-training with a change to the successful use of the toilet bowl rather than the diaper is viewed as a necessarily negative experience. Further, from this point of view the most benign outcome of such a change would be the minimization of trauma. Similarly, more complex parental socialization practices,