Mothers' Emotions and Behavioral Support during Interactions with Toddlers: The Role of Child Temperament

Autor/inn/en	Bryan, Amy E.; Dix, Theodore
Titel	Mothers' Emotions and Behavioral Support during Interactions with Toddlers: The Role of Child Temperament
Quelle	In: Social Development, 18 (2009) 3, S.647-670 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00502.x
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Childhood Interests; Personality Traits; Parent Child Relationship; Toddlers; Interaction; Gender Issues; Predictor Variables; Child Behavior; Social Behavior; Emotional Response; Affective Behavior + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Interaktion; Geschlechterfrage; Prädiktor; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Emotionales Verhalten; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung
Abstract	This article examines mothers' support for children's interests and, specifically, emotional processes in mothers that may explain why they display different levels of support with children of different temperaments. We observed 114 mothers and their 14-27 month-old children during a laboratory interaction. Mothers rated children on three dimensions of temperament: activity, anger proneness, and social fearfulness. As expected, activity predicted mothers' anger, disappointment, and low support for children's interests. Social fearfulness predicted mothers' worry, low anger, low disappointment, and high support for children's interests. Mediational tests verified that (1) mothers' emotions often mediated the relation of child temperament to mothers' supportive behavior, and (2) children's compliance often mediated the relation of child temperament to mothers' emotions. Mothers tended to report negative emotion and to display relatively unsupportive behavior with children whose temperaments corresponded to attributes considered relatively undesirable for their sex. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10