Parental Manipulation of the Behavior of Normal and Deviant Children [microform] / W. Charles Lobitz and Stephen M. Johnson.
Examined was the ability of parents of 12 deviant and 12 nondeviant boys, age 4-8 years, to bias home observation data by influencing their child's behavior in socially desirable and undesirable directions. The parents were given the response set to present their child as "good", &quo...
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| Summary: | Examined was the ability of parents of 12 deviant and 12 nondeviant boys, age 4-8 years, to bias home observation data by influencing their child's behavior in socially desirable and undesirable directions. The parents were given the response set to present their child as "good", "bad", and usual (normal) during six 45-minute observations of family interaction. Nondeviant children showed slightly less deviant behavior under the "good" condition and significantly more deviant behavior under the "bad" condition as compared to normal. Deviant children showed significantly more deviant behavior under the "bad" condition whereas their normal and "good" conditions did not differ. Parent positive, negative, and commanding behaviors were significantly related to changes in child deviant behavior for the nondeviant sample, whereas only parent negative behaviors were related to deviant behavior change for the deviant sample. Parent self-report of behavior change was consistent with the observation data except the deviant parents tended to overestimate their changes. The results were consistent with previous research on the unresponsiveness of deviant children to adult-dispensed stimuli. In addition, the present investigation suggested some modifications in the methodology of naturalistic observations of families. (Author) |
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| Item Description: | Availability: W. Charles Lobitz and Stephen M. Johnson, Psychology Clinic, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403. ERIC Document Number: ED094529. |
| Physical Description: | 35 pages |
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