Author: Chilamkurti, C.; Milner, J.S.
Description: Perceptions and evaluations of children’s transgressions (moral, conventional, personal), parental disciplinary actions (power assertion, love withdrawal, induction), and expected outcomes (compliance) were assessed in matched high- and low-risk (for physical abuse) mothers and their children. High-risk mothers and their children evaluated conventional and personal transgressions as more wrong than low-risk mothers and their children. Although both high- and low-risk mothers and their children varied disciplinary responses according to the type of transgression, high-risk mothers used power assertion (verbal and physical force) more often and induction (reasoning and explanation) less often. High-risk mothers also perceived the use of power assertion by others as more appropriate. With respect to outcomes, high-risk mothers, compared to low-risk mothers, expected less compliance following moral transgressions and more compliance after personal transgressions. Children of both high- and low-risk mothers made compliance predictions following moral and personal transgressions that were similar to the low-risk mothers’ predictions.
Subject headings: Child; Child Abuse/diagnosis; Child Behavior/psychology; Cognition; Female; Humans; Imagination; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Maternal Behavior; Mother-Child Relations; Mothers; Parenting
Publication year: 1993
Journal or book title: Child Development
Volume: 64
Issue: 6
Pages: 1801-1814
Find the full text: https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1993.tb04214.x
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Type: Journal Article
Serial number: 1732