Maternal perceptions of deviance in child behavior as a function of stress and clinic versus nonclinic status of the child: An analogue study

Middlebrook, Jimmy L.; Forehand, Rex

doi:10.1016/s0005-7894(85)80027-7

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“…The finding that stress influences mothers' perceptions of child behavior is consistent with the results of previaus studies (Middlebrook & Forehand, 1985). Our study expands on this information by illustrating the differential impact of two types of stress-major life events and minor daily stressors.…”

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The Relationship of Depressed Mood and Life Stress to Maternal Perceptions of Child Behavior

Krech¹,

Johnston²

1992

Journal of Clinical Child Psychology

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The Relationship of Depressed Mood and Life Stress to Maternal Perceptions of Child Behavior

Krech¹,

Johnston²

1992

Journal of Clinical Child Psychology

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“…In addition to endogenous factors such as depressed mood, MacKinnon et al (1990) proposed that family characteristics and circumstances, such as marital conflict, adverse life events, and socioeconomic status may foster the adoption of negative world views and promote biased attributions (Amenson & Lewinsohn, 1981;Gong-Guy & Hammen, 1980;Middlebrook & Forehand, 1985). We sought to determine whether or not these circumstances and characteristics affected both the attributions and the aggressiveness of mothers and children.…”

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The relationship between biased maternal and filial attributions and the aggressiveness of their interactions

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This study examined the relation between maternal and filial attributions and the aggressiveness of their interactions. We also examined whether or not certain setting conditions (e.g., maternal and child depression, maternal and child negative life events, marital conflict, socioeconomic status) predispose some mothers and children to make negative attributions and interact coercively. One hundred four mothers and sons (age 7-9 years) from married and divorced families participated. They completed questionnaire and interview data and were observed while participating in two gamelike tasks (e.g., Trouble, Etch-a-Sketch). Both maternal and child attributions were significantly related to their coercive interactions. The most aggressive dyads were those in which both mothers and sons perceived hostile intent in the other. The relations between attributions and coercive interactions were found to be moderated by marital conflict, and maternal education, such that the association between attributions and coercive behavior, was stronger when marital conflict was low and the mothers were better educated.Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him drew attention to the way in which seemwhen he sneezes. He only does it to annoy, be-ingly innocent behavior can be interpreted cause he knows it teases. a s though the actor had malicious inten-. " , , tions. Just how might a person's tendency to In these sentences from, Alice'in Wonder-m a k e y e a t t r i b u t i o n s a b o u t a n o t h e r , s land, Lewis Carroll

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“…At within the same design have often been lim-present, data needed to address this issue ited by methodological weaknesses, such as are lacking. the use of analogue approaches (e.g., Mid-Third, recent evidence suggests that the dlebrook & Forehand, 1985) or descriptive relation between a mother's own functioncorrelational analyses (e.g., Mash, John-ing and her parenting behavior reflects imston, & Kovitz, 1983). Consequently, little portant contextual variables.…”

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Maternal reports of child behavior problems and personal distress as predictors of dysfunctional parenting

Dumas

Wekerle

1995

Dev Psychopathol

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A community sample of 96 mother-child dyads participated in a study evaluating the extent to which directly observed differences in maternal parenting behavior could be predicted on the basis of both global and proximal maternal reports of child behavior problems and personal distress. To allow for simultaneous testing of a set of relations and make tentative causal inferences, a structural equation modeling approach was used. When the analysis was conducted on the entire sample, results indicated that global and to a lesser extent proximal measures of child behavior problems and personal distress made modest contributions to dysfunctional parenting, with neither child behavior problems or personal distress playing a more important role than the other. When the sample was divided into low (n = 54) and high (n = 42) socioeconomic disadvantage (SED) families, a different picture emerged. In low disadvantage families, parenting was most strongly predicted by mothers' proximal reports of their children's behavior; whereas in high disadvantage families, parenting was best predicted by mothers' proximal reports of their own personal distress. Results are interpreted in light of Wahler and Dumas' (1989) attentional hypothesis. It suggests that mothers who do not experience chronic sources of distress (such as SED) attend and respond to their children's behavior in a fairl accurate and consistent manner, but that mothers who experience chronic distress are unable to attend effectively to their children, responding to them often in light of the many stressors to which they are exposed, rather than in light of the children's actual behavior.

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Maternal perceptions of deviance in child behavior as a function of stress and clinic versus nonclinic status of the child: An analogue study

Cited by 19 publications

References 15 publications

The Relationship of Depressed Mood and Life Stress to Maternal Perceptions of Child Behavior

The Relationship of Depressed Mood and Life Stress to Maternal Perceptions of Child Behavior

The relationship between biased maternal and filial attributions and the aggressiveness of their interactions

Maternal reports of child behavior problems and personal distress as predictors of dysfunctional parenting

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