Mothers with hostile, Type A predisposing child-rearing practices.
The authors examined characteristics of Finnish mothers (N = 924) who use hostile child-rearing practices (i.e., they ignore the child, are punitive and irritable, and perceive the child as a burden), practices that have been shown (Räikkönen & Keltikangas-Järvinen, 1992) to predispose children to Type A behavior. The results of this study indicate that two factors--Type A behavior in the mothers and the mothers' sociodemographic background (low occupational status, low educational level and young age)--increase the probability of the mothers' treating their children in a hostile manner. Also, the mothers of boys in this study reported more hostile child-rearing practices than the mothers of girls did.
Räikkönen
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K
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Keltikangas-Järvinen
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L
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005783:Gender Identity; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D012307:Risk Factors; D014434:Type A Personality