Refining social-information processing theory: Predicting maternal and paternal parent-child aggression risk longitudinally

Rodriguez, Christina M.; Wittig, Shannon M.O.; Silvia, Paul J.

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104563

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“…To understand etiological factors in child abuse risk, Social Information Processing (SIP) theory has been applied to describe how parents engage in parent-child aggression (Milner, 2000;Rodriguez, Silvia, & Gaskin, 2019;Rodriguez, Wittig, & Silvia, 2020). This theory postulates that parents hold pre-existing schemas, before parent-child conflict even arises, usually developed during their upbringing (e.g., beliefs about parenting and discipline).…”

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Underlying mechanisms for racial disparities in parent-child physical and psychological aggression and child abuse risk

Rodriguez

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Ward

2021

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Background: Understanding factors that contribute to parents' use of physical and psychological parent-child aggression (PCA) is critical in efforts to mitigate child maltreatment. Objective: Extant research has not adequately distinguished risk factors that may differ by race. Participants and methods: The present study investigated potential racial differences in worry, approval of PCA, justification for PCA use, negative child intent attributions, and discrimination experiences in relation to child abuse risk and physical and psychological PCA use in a sample of 292 Black (44.9 %) and White mothers. Results: As hypothesized, compared to White mothers, Black mothers demonstrated higher child abuse risk and reported more PCA use, stronger approval for using PCA, and more justification of their PCA to teach children obedience. Although Black mothers reported more discipline-relevant worry as well as more experience of discrimination, White mothers' lower trait worry related to their greater approval of PCA for discipline, which indirectly related to their abuse risk. Contrary to expectations, perceptions of greater discrimination were related to White mothers' increased child abuse risk, approval of PCA, and justification for PCA because of anger and to teach obedience-findings not observed for Black mothers. Conclusions: The current results underscore the need for additional research on the role of discrimination and the cultural context of parenting and highlight the importance of explicitly testing racial differences to develop more culturally informed abuse prevention approaches.

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Underlying mechanisms for racial disparities in parent-child physical and psychological aggression and child abuse risk

Rodriguez

Lee

Ward

2021

Child Abuse & Neglect

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“…Mothers who reported they experienced more anger when observing child misbehavior and who chose more physical discipline responses were also more likely to ascribe negative intent to children’s behavior. Such negative child intent attributions are considered an indicator of social-information processing negative interpretations (Milner, 2000) which are associated with and predict parent–child aggression risk (Azar et al, 2016; Camilo et al, 2020; Rodriguez et al, 2019, 2020). Thus, the APEAR task performed consistent with the premises of social-information processing theory.…”

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“…To conceptualize the complex etiological factors leading to parent-child aggression, social-information processing theory has been applied to parent-child aggression, emphasizing sociocognitive processes (Milner, 2000;Rodriguez et al, 2019Rodriguez et al, , 2020. According to this theory, parents maintain preexisting schemas (e.g., parenting-related beliefs) before a discipline situation even arises.…”

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Assessing Mothers’ Automatic Affective and Discipline Reactions to Child Behavior in Relation to Child Abuse Risk: A Dual-Processing Investigation

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Given the scope and adverse clinical consequences of child abuse, assessment of salient etiological factors can lend critical insights needed for abuse prevention. Increasingly, dual-processing models have been applied to aggression, which postulate that parallel automatic and conscious processes can evoke aggressive behavior, implicating both affective and cognitive elements in both routes. Using two samples of mothers ( n = 110 and n = 195), the current investigation considered evidence of the reliability and convergent, concurrent, and construct validity of the new Automatic Parent Emotion Analog Response task relevant to parent–child aggression, contrasted with a self-reported conscious processing measure. Findings provide evidence that affective reactions of both anger and worry relate to child abuse risk and inclination to respond aggressively, and demonstrate how mothers’ automatic reactions relate to both perceived child misbehavior and child dangerous behavior. Current results lend psychometric support for automatic processing in parent–child aggression consistent with other dual-processing theories of aggression.

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“…Current research has documented a number of cognitive risk factors associated with child maltreatment risk (Azar et al, 2016 ; Camilo et al, 2020 ; Milner, 2000 ; Rodriguez et al, 2019 , 2020 ), which often feature prominently in the psychoeducational approaches adopted by the majority of maltreatment prevention strategies. However, recent rigorous meta-analytic evaluations document modest and often disappointing success across maltreatment prevention efforts, many with relatively low effect sizes (Chen & Chan, 2016 ; Euser et al, 2015 ; van der Put et al, 2018 ).…”

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Role of maternal emotion in child maltreatment risk during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodriguez

Lee

2022

J Fam Viol

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Purpose Preliminary research early in the COVID-19 pandemic suggested children appeared to be at increased risk for child maltreatment, particularly as parents struggled with mental health and economic strains. Such strains were likely to influence parental emotions about their children, affecting their parent-child interactions to contribute to elevated maltreatment risk. To identify the potential affective elements that may contribute to such increased maltreatment risk, the current study focused on whether maternal worry about children’s behavior specifically as well as maternal anger were related to increased risk for neglect or physical or psychological aggression six months into the pandemic. Method The racially diverse sample included 193 mothers who completed an online survey during the COVID-19 pandemic in late September-early October 2020. Results Mothers’ reported increases in neglect and physical and psychological aggression during the pandemic were significantly related with established measures of maltreatment risk. Furthermore, path models indicated that maternal anger and worry about children’s behavior, as well as their interaction, were significantly related to indicators of physical aggression risk and neglect during the pandemic, but only maternal anger related to increased psychological aggression during the pandemic. Conclusions Maternal worry and anger about children’s behavior may have exacerbated risk for maltreatment under the stressful conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings suggest affective reactions of both parental worry and anger focused on child behavior warrants greater empirical attention and consideration in intervention efforts both during the pandemic and potentially post-pandemic.

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Refining social-information processing theory: Predicting maternal and paternal parent-child aggression risk longitudinally

Cited by 17 publications

References 80 publications

Underlying mechanisms for racial disparities in parent-child physical and psychological aggression and child abuse risk

Underlying mechanisms for racial disparities in parent-child physical and psychological aggression and child abuse risk

Assessing Mothers’ Automatic Affective and Discipline Reactions to Child Behavior in Relation to Child Abuse Risk: A Dual-Processing Investigation

Role of maternal emotion in child maltreatment risk during the COVID-19 pandemic

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