PARENTAL ATTRIBUTIONS/CHILD SOCIAL COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

父母归因/儿童社会认知发展

• 批准号: 2674079
• 负责人: MARION O'BRIEN
• 金额: $ 6.85万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-08-10 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2674079
• 关键词: attitude; attribution; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; child behavior; child rearing; clinical research; developmental psychology; emotional adjustment; emotions; human subject; maternal behavior; parent offspring interaction; paternal behavior; preschool child (1-5); social adjustment; social behavior; social psychology

The purpose of the proposed project is to examine the origins of parental attributions for their children's behavior and the extent to which parents' overt interpretations of their young children's mental and emotional states are associated with children's understanding of their own and others' mental and emotional states. The question is of importance to the mental health of children for two primary reasons. First, parental attributions are known to influence parents' emotions and behavior, and negative attributional styles are associated with harsh parenting and child abuse. Secondly, children's social competence and long-term psychosocial adjustment, which depend on their representations of social situaitons and relationships, may be heavily influenced by parental attributions and descriptions of children's mental and emotional states in the early tears. For this study, 120 mothers and fathers of 4- and 5-years-old children will be interviewed about their demographic and family backgrounds, their attitudes toward parenting, and their attributions for their children's behavior, and they will be observed with their children in a game designed to elicit talk about positive and negative emotional states. Children will be assessed on three different social cognitive tasks and a measure of language. It is predicted that parents who attribute their children's misbehavior to situational rather than dispositional causes, and who talk coherently about emotional and mental states with their children will have children who demonstrate advanced social cognitive skills. The results will contribute substantially to our knowledge about the role of parental attributions in children's developing social awareness and competence.

拟议项目的目的是研究 父母对孩子行为的归因及其程度 父母对年幼孩子的公开解释 精神和情绪状态与儿童的 了解自己和他人的心理和情感 州。 这个问题对人们的心理健康很重要 孩子有两个主要原因。 首先，父母的归因是 已知会影响父母的情绪和行为，并产生负面影响 归因风格与严厉的养育方式和孩子有关 虐待。 其次，孩子的社交能力和长期能力 心理社会调整，取决于他们对 社会情境和人际关系，可能受到以下因素的严重影响： 父母对孩子心理和心理的归因和描述 早期流泪的情绪状态。 在这项研究中，120 名母亲 4 岁和 5 岁儿童的父亲将接受采访 他们的人口和家庭背景，他们对 养育子女以及他们对孩子行为的归因，以及 他们将与孩子们一起参加一场旨在 引发有关积极和消极情绪状态的讨论。 孩子们 将针对三种不同的社会认知任务进行评估 语言的尺度。 据预测，父母认为 孩子的不当行为是情境性的而非性格性的 原因，并连贯地谈论情绪和精神状态 和他们的孩子一起会有表现出先进的孩子 社交认知能力。 研究结果将大大有助于 我们对父母归因对孩子的影响的了解 发展社会意识和能力。