title: Maternal sensitivity to children in problem situations.
abstract: Sixty mothers and their preschool children were placed in interactions structured to involve a problem situation for the child, the mother, or both. Maternal sensitivity and insensitivity were measured to test a number of parent effectiveness constructs. Results indicate that mothers were more insensitive than sensitive to their children, and that some major assumptions of the parent effectiveness model lack sufficient support to justify its training procedures.
mesh_terms: D001318:Authoritarianism; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D011340:Problem Solving; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012919:Social Behavior; D014705:Verbal Behavior