Maternal Support for Autonomy: Relationships with Persistence for Children with Down Syndrome and Typically Developing Children

Autor/inn/en	Gilmore, Linda; Cuskelly, Monica; Jobling, Anne; Hayes, Alan
Titel	Maternal Support for Autonomy: Relationships with Persistence for Children with Down Syndrome and Typically Developing Children
Quelle	In: Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 30 (2009) 5, S.1023-1033 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0891-4222
DOI	10.1016/j.ridd.2009.02.005
Schlagwörter	Mental Age; Mothers; Persistence; Down Syndrome; Children; Problem Solving; Behavior + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geistige Beweglichkeit; Mother; Mutter; Ausdauer; 'Downs Syndrome; Down''s Syndrome'; Down-Syndrom; Child; Kind; Kinder; Problemlösen
Abstract	Maternal behaviors and child mastery behaviors were examined in 25 children with Down syndrome and 43 typically developing children matched for mental age (24-36 months). During a shared problem-solving task, there were no group differences in maternal directiveness or support for autonomy, and mothers in the two groups used similar verbal strategies when helping their child. There were also no group differences in child mastery behaviors, measured as persistence with two optimally challenging tasks. However, the two groups differed in the relationships of maternal style with child persistence. Children with Down syndrome whose mothers were more supportive of their autonomy in the shared task displayed greater persistence when working independently on a challenging puzzle, while children of highly directive mothers displayed lower levels of persistence. For typically developing children, persistence was unrelated to maternal style, suggesting that mother behaviors may have different causes or consequences in the two groups. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10