Prediction and constancy of cognitive-motivational structures in mothers and their adolescents.
Three clinically-derived, cognitive-motivational structures were predicted in 68 adolescents from their caregiving situations as revealed in their mothers' interviews, elicited six years earlier. Basic to each structure is a motivational concern and its related social cognitive style, a style which corresponds to a Piagetian cognitive stage: concrete operational, intuitive or symbolic. Because these structure types parse a non-clinical population, current views of health and accordingly goals of treatment may need modification.
Malerstein
A J
AJ
University of California-San Francisco, USA.
Ahern
M M
MM
Pulos
S
S
Arasteh
J D
JD
D000293:Adolescent; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009042:Motivation; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010553:Personality Development; D011446:Prospective Studies