SOCIAL COGNITION AND MOTHERS' RESPONSES TO MISBEHAVIOR

发展心理学中的一个基本问题是，是什么导致父母 对他们的孩子的行为。尽管养育孩子的后果 长期以来一直被研究，但相对较少的关注 理解父母行为的认知中介。的目标是 建议的工作是阐明父母的想法和 通过考察社会认知过程中涉及的父母行为 母亲对常见的儿童不良行为的反应。尤其是母亲们的 关于使用一种显著的父母惩戒的态度和规则 应对措施--体罚--将围绕一个社会问题进行研究、组织 信息处理模型。总共有六项研究被提出来检验。 关于一些母亲为什么依赖体力的七种不同假设 惩罚比其他母亲更多。在其中四项研究中，母亲的 想法和报告的回应通过交互式计算机进行探测 程序。在另外两项研究中，将研究母亲的行为。一 研究的目的是记录伴随和母亲的情况 对家庭中儿童行为不端事件的反应。另一项研究将 比较观察到的母亲对儿童的管理行为 对没有使用这种反应的母亲进行体罚。这个 研究将提供关于近端和近端的作用的新信息 关于父母行为的远距离思考，这在很大程度上是一个话题 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.