SOCIAL COGNITION AND MOTHERS' RESPONSES TO MISBEHAVIOR

发展心理学中的一个基本问题是，是什么导致了父母的 对孩子的行为。尽管抚养孩子的后果 长期以来一直被研究，相对较少关注 理解父母行为的认知中介。的目标 建议的工作是阐明父母的想法之间的联系， 父母的行为，通过检查社会认知过程中涉及的 母亲对孩子常见不良行为的反应特别是母亲的 使用一个突出的父母纪律的态度和规则 反应-体罚-将被研究，围绕一个社会 信息处理模型总共有六项研究被提出来检验 七种不同的假设，为什么一些母亲依赖身体 比其他母亲更严厉的惩罚。在其中四项研究中， 思想和报告的反应是由一个交互式计算机探测的 程序.在另外两项研究中，将对母亲的行为进行检查。一 研究旨在记录伴随和孕产妇的情况， 对孩子在家里的不良行为的反应。另一项研究将 比较观察到的母亲的孩子管理行为， 体罚那些不使用这种反应的母亲。的 研究将提供有关近端和远端的作用的新信息。 关于父母行为的远距离思考，这个话题在很大程度上 在儿童发展领域被忽视。

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.