Maternal emotions and self-efficacy beliefs in relation to boys and girls with AD/HD.
This study examined the impact of child gender on mothers' emotional responses to AD/HD, self-efficacy beliefs and perceived severity of AD/HD. Mothers (N = 118) of pre-schoolers were presented with a vignette describing a typical boy or girl with AD/HD and then completed three scales relating to their emotional response to AD/HD behaviour, their sense of parenting efficacy and their attributions about the severity of problems described. AD/HD behaviour elicited negative emotions and maternal self-efficacy was low, especially for male AD/HD. Perceived severity of the behaviour was negatively correlated with maternal sense of self-efficacy. These findings suggest that mothers of "normal" children have fixed negative emotions and low sense of self-efficacy towards a child with AD/HD and that these factors are key elements for change in the implementation of a therapeutic programme.
Maniadaki
Katerina
K
University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. katarina@arsi.gr
Sonuga-Barke
Edmund
E
Kakouros
Efthymios
E
Karaba
Rania
R
D000328:Adult; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004644:Emotions; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012737:Sex Factors
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