Cognitive response repertoires to child noncompliance by mothers of aggressive boys.
Cognitive response repertoires to videotaped child noncompliance episodes were examined in mothers of aggressive (MAs) and nonaggressive 4-6-year-old boys. Mothers provided open-ended solutions to three subtypes of child noncompliance under conditions of time pressure, or after they waited for 15 s to consider alternatives. Solutions were coded as assistance/facilitation, coercion, deference, or explanation/clarification. Compared with controls, MAs offered fewer explanation/clarification responses, more coercive responses, and fewer unique solutions during pressured responding. Two to 6 weeks later, mothers were videotaped while participating with their sons in a challenging block building task. Maternal responses to the vignettes predicted conflict escalation during block building, even after rates of concurrent and past child noncompliance were partialled out. Implications for parent-training models are considered.
Beauchaine
Theodore P
TP
Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-1525, USA. tbeaucha@u.washington.edu
Strassberg
Zvi
Z
Kees
Michelle R
MR
Drabick
Deborah A G
DA
D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D011340:Problem Solving; D014741:Video Recording