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Maternal Attributions and Child Oppositional Behavior: A Longitudinal Study of Boys with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
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Johnston, Charlotte; Hommersen, Paul; Seipp, Carla M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
The authors examined changes over a 1-year period in mothers' attributions for child behavior and child oppositional behavior among 53 mothers and nonproblem sons and 44 mothers and sons with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Boys averaged 8 years of age (SD = 11 months) at Time 1. Families were primarily of European Canadian…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Mothers, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Child Rearing
Sequential Interactions That Discriminate High- and Low-Problem Single Mother-Son Dyads.
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Phelps, Randy E.; Slater, Mark A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1985
Tested the hypothesis that sequenced patterns of interaction in which mothers deferred control to their sons and sons assumed control would discriminate high- and low-problem single mother-son dyads. In high-problem dyads, compared to low, mothers' submissive communication was more likely to elicit sons' dominant communication and sons' dominant…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Family Problems, Interpersonal Communication, Mothers
Transgenerational Effects of the Holocaust: Externalization of Aggression in Second Generation of Holocaust Survivors.
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Nadler, Arie; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1985
Interviewed 38 sons and daughters of holocaust survivors and 19 controls to evaluate their psychological characteristics. Results showed survivors' children were less likely than controls to externalize aggression. (BH)
Descriptors: Aggression, Daughters, Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship
Mothers' and Sons' Cognitive and Emotional Reactions to Simulated Marital and Family Conflict.
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O'Brien, Mary; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1991
Examined cognitive and emotional reactions to family discussions as experienced by 8- to 11-year-old sons (n=35) and their mothers from homes with physically aggressive (PA), verbally aggressive (VA), and low-conflict (LC) marital relationships. Sons of PA couples demonstrated more self-interference, self-distraction, and arousal and less…
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Response