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ˌoverproˈtection Psychol.
[over- 29 b.]
The condition or act of protecting (someone, esp. a child) to an undue or unhealthy extent.
1930Smith Coll. Stud. Social Work I. 42 Such overprotection would be increased if the child were sickly or handicapped in any way. 1938D. M. Levy in Psychiatry I. 569/2 We would thus succeed in isolating those personality factors..that would be..a result of maternal overprotection. 1949S. A. Stouffer et al. Amer. Soldier iv. 135 A theory currently of considerable interest in psychiatry seeks to trace some types of neurotic behavior to overprotection by the mother. 1964M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. ix. 123 Hysteria and psychosomatic complaints, especially in women, are related to a history of overprotection by the mother. 1970H. Edelston Foundations & Growth of Character iii. i. 96 Just as maternal deprivation can be harmful in its effects, so can maternal overprotection. 1977A. Wilson Strange Ride R. Kipling vi. 275 Much of her over-protection may have come from her sense of his strain.
So overproˈtective a., that protects to an undue or unhealthy extent; overproˈtectiveness, the state or condition of being overprotective. Also overproˈtect v. trans.; overproˈtected, -proˈtecting ppl. adjs.
1930Smith Coll. Stud. Social Work I. 58 One or both parents over-protective, rejecting, or were overambitious, as the category indicates. 1938D. M. Levy in Psychiatry I. 569/2 How their personality traits resulting from growth in the medium of the overprotecting mother have shaped their destinies. 1949M. Mead Male & Female xv. 310 He is often..over-protective towards his son. 1957R. B. Cattell Personality & Motivation iv. 135 It is a sociological pattern, varying from family to family of ‘Overprotectiveness —vs— Tough Neglect’. 1961Webster s.v. Overprotect, Overprotected children. 1964M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. vi. 80 Women are prone to hysteria, especially when they have had a dominating mother who has over-protected them, thus concentrating attention on bodily complaints. Ibid. ix. 120 Several investigators reported that schizophrenics have mothers who are over-protecting, but when control groups have been used no such difference is found. 1969M. D. Vernon Human Motivation x. 161 Even over-protectiveness..tends to create anxiety. 1973R. Lewis Blood Money v. 60 She hadn't wanted him to talk to her daughter... She was over-protective. 1976Times 1 Sept. 14/1 A warning against over-protecting elderly people. 1977R. Barnard Blood Brotherhood xiv. 150 Over-protected and over-driven, Philip had drifted through..life. |