Girls' and boys' perception of mothers' intentions of using physical punishment and reasoning as discipline methods

Sorbring, Emma; Deater‐Deckard, Kirby; Palmérus, Kerstin

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“…Compared to the enormous body of research on child outcomes, there is a relative dearth of research examining children's evaluations of discipline practices. The existing studies (e.g., Barnett, Quackenbush, & Sinisi, ; Horton, Ray, & Cohen, ; Paikoff, Collins, & Laursen, ; Siegal & Barclay, ; Siegal & Cowen, ; Sorbring, Deater‐Dickard, & Palmerus, ) have been conducted in North America and Europe, and generally have found that children increasingly prefer parental discipline based on induction or reasoning and become more critical of other forms of discipline, such as love withdrawal or power assertion, between the early elementary school years and adolescence.…”

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“…In the present study, we sought to examine Canadian and Chinese children's (7–14 years of age) evaluations and reasoning about four types of parental discipline carried out in response to a child who engages in a prototypical moral transgression (hits another child on the playground and takes that child's possession). We used hypothetical vignettes, in line with the previous studies reviewed earlier conducted in North America and Europe (e.g., Siegal & Cowen, ; Sorbring et al., ), in order to provide systematic control of variables and situations. In contrast to the previous research, however, we also elicited in‐depth reasoning and justifications in order to provide more information about children's understandings of the purposes and consequences of different forms of discipline.…”

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Judgments and Reasoning About Parental Discipline Involving Induction and Psychological Control in China and Canada

Helwig

Wang

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Child Development

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This study examined judgments and reasoning about four parental discipline practices (induction or reasoning and three practices involving “psychological control”; Barber, 1996; two forms of shaming and love withdrawal)among children (7–14 years of age) from urban and rural China and Canada (N = 288) in response to a moral transgression. Children from all settings critically evaluated love withdrawal and preferred induction. Despite being perceived as more common in China than in Canada, with age, parental discipline based on shaming or love withdrawal was increasingly negatively evaluated and believed to have detrimental effects on children’s feelings of self-worth and psychological well-being. Some cultural variations were found in evaluations of practices, perceptions of psychological harm, and attribution of parental goals.

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Judgments and Reasoning About Parental Discipline Involving Induction and Psychological Control in China and Canada

Helwig

Wang

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Child Development

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“…Inducing guilt about harm to the direct victim scaffolds children’s understanding of the negative effects of their behavior and how they can make amends or prevent such results in the future (Hoffman, 2000). This helps children to function effectively within society’s moral standards (Shen, Carlo, & Knight, 2013) and therefore tends to be a positive, child-focused socialization goal (Hastings & Grusec, 1998; Helwig et al, 2014; Sorbring et al, 2006). In contrast, inducing guilt over indirect harm that stems from a parent’s interpretation of the child’s behavior (e.g., “It makes me feel like you don’t care”) is less likely to scaffold moral understanding (Hoffman, 2000).…”

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“…Specifically, variations in how and when parents induce guilt should impact children’s perceptions and acceptance of the practice (Grusec & Goodnow, 1994). For instance, children view both inductive discipline and psychological control more positively when they perceive such practices as normative, appropriate, and conducted with their best interests at heart (Fung & Lau, 2012; Patrick & Gibbs, 2016; Sorbring, Deater-Deckard, & Palmerus, 2006). In turn, these perceptions may moderate associations between guilt induction and adjustment, as has been observed for both psychological control (Camras, Sun, Li, & Wright, 2012) and inductive discipline (Patrick & Gibbs, 2012).…”

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Situational and structural variation in youth perceptions of maternal guilt induction.

Rote¹,

Smetana²

2017

Developmental Psychology

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Parental induction of empathy-related guilt plays an important role in children's moral development. However, guilt induction can also be psychologically controlling and detrimental for youth adjustment. This study provided a more nuanced view of parental guilt induction by examining how the nature of a child's misdeed and the structure and content of the parental guilt inductive statement impact children's perceptions of it. Using hypothetical vignettes, this study experimentally examined the impact of the type (domain) of child behavior, highlighted victim, and focus of parental criticism on 156 children's and early and middle adolescents' (age: Ms = 8.82, 12.11, and 15.84 years) perceptions of maternal guilt induction. Attributions of guilt and shame increased most for younger children, when mothers focused on indirect harm to themselves about personal issues, and when mothers criticized their child as a person (shame only). Youth evaluated guilt induction least positively for personal issues and when mothers criticized the child's personality while focusing on indirect harm to themselves. With age, youth were less accepting of maternal guilt induction and more likely to endorse negative and parent-centered intentions, especially for personal issues. Older youth also drew less distinction between guilt induction over multifaceted and personal issues. Guilt induction over moral issues was generally perceived most positively. Additional interactions also emerged. These findings suggest that the meaning and effects of guilt induction on children's development may depend on the way in which it is enacted. (PsycINFO Database Record

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“…In a Swedish study that used vignettes to explore relations between mothers’ childrearing attitudes and children’s evaluation of mothers’ discipline methods, it was found that children’s perceptions and evaluations of hypothetical mothers’ use of harsh discipline methods varied as a function of their own mothers’ traditional childrearing attitudes (Sorbring, Deater-Deckard, & Palmérus, 2006). Mother-father similarities with respect to progressive-traditional attitudes are found in some studies (Palmérus, 1999), but not in other studies.…”

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Attributions and Attitudes of Mothers and Fathers in Sweden

Sorbring

Gurdal

2011

Parenting

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SYNOPSIS Objective The present study examined mean level similarities and differences as well as correlations between mothers’ and fathers’ attributions regarding successes and failures in caregiving situations and progressive versus authoritarian attitudes. Design Interviews were conducted with both mothers and fathers in 77 Swedish families. Results Fathers reported higher adult-controlled failure and child-controlled failure attributions than did mothers; these differences remained significant after controlling for parents’ age, education, and possible social desirability bias. Significant positive correlations were found for mothers’ and fathers’ progressive attitudes, authoritarian attitudes, and modernity of attitudes after controlling for parents’ age, education, and possible social desirability bias. Conclusions We conclude that in Sweden fathers are more likely to attribute failures in caregiving situations both to themselves and to children than are mothers and that there is moderate concordance between fathers and mothers within the same family in progressive and authoritarian parenting attitudes.

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Girls' and boys' perception of mothers' intentions of using physical punishment and reasoning as discipline methods

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Judgments and Reasoning About Parental Discipline Involving Induction and Psychological Control in China and Canada

Judgments and Reasoning About Parental Discipline Involving Induction and Psychological Control in China and Canada

Situational and structural variation in youth perceptions of maternal guilt induction.

Attributions and Attitudes of Mothers and Fathers in Sweden

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