Cognitive Processes Associated with Child Neglect

Autor/inn/en	Hildyard, Kathryn; Wolfe, David
Titel	Cognitive Processes Associated with Child Neglect
Quelle	In: Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 31 (2007) 8, S.895-907 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0145-2134
DOI	10.1016/j.chiabu.2007.02.007
Schlagwörter	Public Agencies; Infants; Cognitive Processes; Child Behavior; Depression (Psychology); Child Neglect; Mothers; Comparative Analysis; Parent Child Relationship; Task Analysis; Pictorial Stimuli; Recall (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Cognitive Restructuring; Behavior Modification; Parenting Styles + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Einrichtung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Kindesvernachlässigung; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Aufgabenanalyse; Fantasieanregung; Abberufung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Behaviour modification; Verhaltensänderung
Abstract	Objective: To compare neglectful and non-neglectful mothers on information processing tasks related to child emotions, behaviors, the caregiving relationship, and recall of child-related information. Method: A natural group design was used. Neglectful mothers (N = 34) were chosen from active, chronic caseloads; non-neglectful comparison mothers (N = 33) were obtained from community agencies serving families. Participants were administered the IFEEL Picture task to assess maternal perceptions of infant emotions, eight vignettes of young children's behavior to assess attributions for child behavior across different scenarios, and a passage recall task to assess information processing problems. A measure of depression was used as a covariate to control for this variable. Results: Neglectful mothers were significantly less likely to recognize infants' feelings of interest, more likely to see sadness and shame, more inaccurate at labeling infants' emotions, and had a more limited emotion vocabulary. They also made more internal and stable attributions for children's behaviors in situations where it was not clear whether a child was at risk of harm, and had poor recall of information. Depressive symptoms had little effect on these findings with the exception of information recall. Conclusions: Neglectful mothers show significant problems in information processing concerning their child's emotions and behaviors, which may affect their childrearing behavior. Cognitive-behavioral interventions to improve parents' abilities to recognize their child's emotions and to address maladaptive attributions may be of value. (Author).
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