SOCIAL COGNITION AND MOTHERS' RESPONSES TO MISBEHAVIOR

社会认知和母亲对不当行为的反应

• 批准号: 3328056
• 负责人: GEORGE W. HOLDEN
• 金额: $ 7.83万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-02-01 至 1993-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3328056
• 关键词: attitude; cognition; maternal behavior; mother child interaction

A fundamental question in developmental psychology is what causes parents' behavior toward their children. Although the consequences of child rearing have long been studied, there has been relatively little attention to understanding the cognitive mediators of parental behavior. The goal of the proposed work is to explicate the links between parental thoughts and parental behavior by examining the social-cognitive processes involved in mothers' responses to common child misbehavior. In particular, mothers' attitudes and rules governing the use of one salient parental disciplinary response-physical punishment--will be studied, organized around a social information processing model. A total of six studies are proposed to test seven different hypotheses about why some mothers rely on physical punishment more than other mothers. In four of the studies, mothers' thoughts and reported responses are probed by an interactive computer program. In two other studies, maternal behavior will be examined. One study is designed to document the circumstances accompanying and maternal responses to episodes of child misbehavior in the home. Another study will compare the observed child management behavior of mothers who rely on physical punishment with mothers who do not use that response. The research will provide new information about the role of both proximal and distal thoughts on parental behavior, a topic that has been largely neglected in the field of child development.

发展心理学的一个基本问题是什么导致父母