... stroking, brushing, holding, pushing, and pulling touches (Reece & Schirmer, 2013) Additionally, this study examined instrumental touch based on maternal intention as in when the mother was fixing ... Schirmer, 2013) The descriptions of all touch actions are listed in Table of the results section The coding of maternal touch behavior was performed by the author of this thesis, and a team of research ... child 0.646 Inhibiting Actively changing or stopping the action of the other, not for the purpose of help 0.819 Affection Intentional touch that gives an impression of closeness between mother and...