A cross-cultural study of child rearing and romantic love.

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To test the hypothesis that individuals who receive inadequate satisfaction of early oral and dependence needs are more concerned with affection as adults than those who have been adequately satisfied, a cross-cultural study was done using Whiting and Child's ratings of frustrativeness of oral and dependence socialization and new ratings of importance of romantic love as a basis of marriage. The hypothesis received support from the data on oral socialization, but not from the data on dependency. Since in the Whiting and Child data frustration in infancy is correlated with frustration in early childhood for oral behavior but not for dependency, it may be concluded that negative fixation of affectional behavior requires prolonged frustration. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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