Supplementary Materials for "Anchors or Relational Risks?": Thematic Framework, Codebook, and Interrater Reliability Data on Child-Robot Attachment

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Authors: Dimitris Pnevmatikos, Panagiota Christodoulou
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Abstract

This item contains the complete set of supplementary materials for the study: "Anchors or Relational Risks? Educator and Psychologist Narratives of Attachment in Child-Robot Relationships." These materials provide the granular data and methodological transparency necessary to understand how 123 Greek professionals (62 educators and 61 psychologists) conceptualize the emotional bonds formed between children and Socially Assistive Robots (SARs).The study employed a qualitative exploratory design. Participants evaluated three fictional vignettes depicting different attachment hallmarks (proximity seeking, safe haven, and secure base behavior). The resulting narratives were analyzed using Thematic Analysis.This consolidated dataset includes:Attachment Dataset: The raw qualitative dataset collected from the participants' studyResearch Vignettes: The three fictional scenarios used to prompt professional evaluations of attachment hallmarks.Thematic Analysis Framework: The full mapping of Research Questions (RQs) to keywords, granular codes, themes and concepts.Official Codebook: Detailed definitions for all codes and themes used to ensure consistency across the 123 participant responses during interrater agreement.Interrater Agreement Data: Multiple tabs in an excel file detailing the Kappa/Alpha scores and agreement levels between human raters and AI models for different percentages of the data.AI Methodology: The exact prompts used for the AI interrater agreement process, allowing other researchers to replicate or adapt the AI-assisted interrater agreement methodology.This research was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the University Research Ethics Committee (Ref. 192/05-03-2025). Informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to data collection. All qualitative data provided in these files has been fully anonymized.These materials are intended to be used alongside the main manuscript to provide a deeper look at the "Child–Robot Emotional Bonding Ecosystem" framework and the "red line" boundaries identified by professionals regarding healthy vs. pathological robot-mediated attachment-like processes.

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Social Robot Interaction and HRI Attachment and Relationship Dynamics Human-Animal Interaction Studies

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Publication date
11 January 2026