Mothers' Overreactive Discipline and Their Encoding and Appraisals of Toddler Behavior

Overview

Journal J Abnorm Child Psychol

Publisher Springer

Date 2003 Oct 17

PMID 14561057

Citations 12

Authors

Michael F Lorber

Susan G OLeary

Kimberly T Kendziora

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Abstract

The relations of observed overreactive discipline with mothers' tendencies to notice negative, relative to positive, child behavior (preferential negative encoding), and mothers' negative appraisals of neutral and positive child behavior (negative appraisal bias), were examined in mothers of toddlers. The mothers rated both their own children's and unfamiliar children's behavior. Negative appraisal bias with respect to mothers' own (but not unfamiliar) children was related to mothers' overreactivity, independent of child misbehavior. Overreactivity was not related to mothers' preferential negative encoding either of their own or of unfamiliar children's behavior. However, in the case of mothers' own children, preferential negative encoding moderated the relation between negative appraisal bias and overreactive discipline, such that the negative appraisal bias-overreactivity relation was significant only in the context of high preferential negative encoding.

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