The Effect of Task and Maternal Verbosity on Compliance in Toddlers

Autor/inn/en	Hakman, Melissa; Sullivan, Maureen
Titel	The Effect of Task and Maternal Verbosity on Compliance in Toddlers
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 18 (2009) 2, S.195-205 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7227
DOI	10.1002/icd.599
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Toddlers; Compliance (Psychology); Child Behavior; Interpersonal Communication; Verbal Ability; Verbal Communication; Parent Influence; Hypothesis Testing; Play; Toys; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Mündliche Leistung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Spiel; Toy; Spielzeug; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between compliance in toddlers and maternal verbosity as well as the type of task. Mothers and their toddlers completed a warm-up task, a proactive toy clean-up task, and a prohibitive forbidden objects task. Mothers were assigned to one of two verbosity conditions (high versus low) and to one of two nurturance conditions (high versus low) where the rates of verbosity and nurturance were experimentally manipulated. It was hypothesized that toddlers would demonstrate higher noncompliance when given high levels of verbosity than toddlers given low levels of verbosity. It was expected that toddlers would demonstrate higher noncompliance when given low levels of nurturance than toddlers given high levels of nurturance. It was also expected that toddlers would demonstrate more noncompliance in the prohibitive task than they would in the proactive task. Results indicated that the rates of child compliance were related to the level of maternal verbosity with greater noncompliance being exhibited by children who received high levels of verbosity than those who received low levels of verbosity. Child compliance rates were also related to the type of task, with greater noncompliance exhibited in the proactive task versus the prohibitive task. Excessive detail about what children should or should not do appears to be related to child behavior and supports Patterson's premise of "nattering." Child behavior also was related to the type of task in which the child was engaged. These findings have direct implications for individuals working with or raising very young children. (Contains 1 figure and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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