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.