Developmental Changes in Mother-Child Interaction During the Negativistic Period [microform] / Leon Kuczynski and Others
- Bib ID:
- 5453204
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- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Kuczynski, Leon
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1985
- 8 p.
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A study was conducted to investigate age changes in children's noncompliant and resistant behaviors and their relation to parental control strategies during the toddler period. Specifically, the study explored possible changes in the form of children's oppositional behavior (or "negativism") and investigated how parental control strategies adapt or contribute to the development of resistant behavior. Spontaneously occurring control interactions between 25 young toddlers (25 months of age) and 30 older toddlers (36 months of age) and their mothers were observed in a naturalistic setting and coded from videotapes. Analyses of children's responses to parental interventions indicated that different forms of resistance tended to be unrelated and followed different developmental trends. Angry noncompliance decreased with age, whereas strategically sophisticated forms of opposition, such as negotiation, increased with age. Maternal use of power-assertive strategies such as direct commands and physical enforcement were positively related to angry noncompliance. Indirect and cognitive strategies such as reasoning and suggestion were positively associated with children's attempts to negotiate and tended to increase with age. Findings were discussed in terms of children's development of social influence strategies and the possible contribution of parents to this development. (Author/RH)
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- Sponsoring Agency: National Inst. of Mental Health (DHEW), Bethesda, MD.
- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 25-28, 1985). Research was also supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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