Affective touch experiences across the lifespan: Development of the Tactile Biography questionnaire and the mediating role of attachment style.

ABSTRACT: The sense of touch develops early in life and becomes a determinant aspect of our personal narratives, providing crucial information about the world around us and playing a prominent role in affective and social interactions. In this study we aimed to explore whether individual differences in touch experiences across the lifespan are related to adult attachment styles and to perceived touch deprivation. For this we first developed an instrument, namely the Tactile Biography, to quantify individual differences in affective touch experiences throughout life. Secondly, we performed a set of regressions models and a mediation analysis to investigate the role of attachment in relation to both the tactile history and perceived touch deprivation. We found that experiences of affective touch durin

SUBMITTER: Beltran MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7592771 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature