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| Title: |
A comparison of mothers of uncooperative children: A cognitive behaviour modification approach |
| Author: |
Diamond, Pat Johnson, Toni |
| Appeared in: |
Australian psychologist |
| Paging: | Volume 23 (1988) nr. 2 pages 153-170 |
| Year: |
1988-07-01 |
| Contents: |
The cognitions of seven mothers were contrasted using Kelly's psychology of personal constructs. On the basis of how successfully they learned and applied the skills of modifying their children's uncooperative behaviour, the mothers were grouped as successful or unsuccessful. Before and after the training, each completed a fixed format repertory grid which consisted of 14 parent-role descriptions and 16 child-rearing statements. Adopting each role perspective in turn, the mothers indicated how much sense they could make of each statement. The extracted and FOCUS-ed mode grids showed that, while the successful mothers rejected swatting and punishment and came to consider themselves as less hassled and less like the mothers of rule-breaking children than before the intervention, the construing of the unsuccessful mothers remained almost unchanged except that they came to feel even more like the mothers of rule-breaking children. While the successful mothers construed encouragement in terms of control practices, the unsuccessful pair saw it in terms of children's self-reliance and independence. A behaviour modification program may be effective only if parents can be helped to accept and embed its offered constructs within their own construct systems. |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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