Effect of mother-child separation and birth order on young children's responses to two potentially stressful experiences.

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2 EXPERIMENTS WERE CARRIED OUT TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF SEPARATION FROM MOTHER AND BIRTH ORDER ON PRESCHOOL CHILDREN'S RESPONSES TO STRESS. THE 2 POTENTIALLY STRESSFUL SITUATIONS WERE ROUTINE ADMISSION PROCEDURES AND ANESTHESIA INDUCTION. SEPARATION FROM MOTHER WAS NOT SIGNIFICANTLY RELATED TO CHILDREN'S RESPONSES TO ADMISSION PROCEDURES, BUT DID APPEAR TO MAKE ANESTHESIA INDUCTION MORE DISTRESSING, ESPECIALLY DURING THE PERIOD JUST PRIOR TO INDUCTION AND DURING THE FINAL MOVEMENTS OF INDUCTION. THE FAILURE TO FIND SIMILAR DIFFERENCES FOR THE ADMISSION-PROCEDURES SS MAY HAVE BEEN DUE TO THE FACT THAT THESE PROCEDURES WERE FOUND TO BE CONSIDERABLY LESS STRESSFUL THAN ANESTHESIA INDUCTION. NEITHER BIRTH ORDER NOR THE COMBINATION OF BIRTH ORDER AND SEPARATION WAS RELATED TO RESPONSES TO THE POTENTIALLY STRESSFUL SITUATIONS. ALSO, IN NEITHER SAMPLE DID THE 1ST-BORN AND LATER-BORN CHILDREN DIFFER IN DEPENDENCY NOR DID THEIR MOTHERS DIFFER IN THE CHILD-REARING PRACTICES ASSUMED TO CONTRIBUTE TO DEPENDENCY. (25 REF.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)

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