Validating the Voodoo Doll Task as a Proxy for Aggressive Parenting Behavior.
Validating the Voodoo Doll Task as a Proxy for Aggressive Parenting Behavior.
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DOI：
10.1037/a0038456
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发表时间：
2016-01-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Skowronski JJ
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作者：
McCarthy RJ;Crouch JL;Basham AR;Milner JS;Skowronski JJ
六项研究(N=1,081名普通人群父母)评估了巫毒娃娃任务(VDT)作为攻击性父母行为的替代工具的有效性。参与者有机会象征性地施加伤害，他们选择在代表他们孩子的娃娃上插上“大头针”。父母的特质攻击性(研究1、2和6)、国家敌意(研究3)、对儿童体罚的态度(研究4)、自我控制(研究6)、抑郁(研究6)和儿童身体虐待风险(研究6)的个体差异与使用针头的增加有关。此外，父母在想象孩子表现出消极行为后比想象孩子表现积极行为后使用更多的别针(研究5)。一些人口统计变量也与别针的使用有关：父亲比母亲更多地使用别针，父母的教育水平与别针的使用呈负相关。最后，平均而言，家长认为完成VDT有点不舒服，但并不令人反感(研究6)。我们的证据表明，VDT可以作为父母对孩子攻击性的有用指标。
Six studies (N = 1,081 general population parents) assessed the validity of the Voodoo Doll Task (VDT) as a proxy for aggressive parenting behaviors. Participants were given an opportunity to symbolically inflict harm by choosing to stick “pins” into a doll representing their child. Individual differences in parents’ trait aggression (Studies 1, 2, and 6), state hostility (Study 3), attitudes towards the corporal punishment of children (Study 4), self-control (Study 6), depression (Study 6), and child physical abuse risk (Study 6) were associated with increased pin usage. Further, parents used more pins after imagining their child perform negative behaviors compared to after imagining their child perform positive behaviors (Study 5). A number of demographic variables also were associated with pin usage: Fathers used pins more than mothers and parents’ education level was inversely related to pin usage. Finally, on average, parents viewed the VDT as slightly uncomfortable, but not objectionable, to complete (Study 6). Our evidence suggests that the VDT may serve as a useful proxy for parent-to-child aggression.