Parent–Child Interactions as a Source of Parent Cognition in the Context of Child Maltreatment

Calheiros, Maria Manuela; Rodrigues, Leonor Bettencourt

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42727-0_7

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“…It is known that low levels of education of parents have been associated with child neglect (e.g., Casady & Lee, 2002; Coohey, 2007), which can lead us to think that this lower complexity of parental schemata is related with a general lack of cognitive functioning, and not specific to parenting cognitions. However, and despite the fact that the differences in schema complexity are associated with sociodemographic variables (e.g., Calheiros & Rodrigues, 2016; Narciso et al, 2018; Sameroff & Fiese, 1992), previous studies about the definitions of child abuse and neglect have shown that mothers are homogeneous in their conceptions about the basic elements of caregiving independently of their educational and socioeconomic level (Polansky, 1981).…”

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How Does Mothering Look Like: A Multidimensional Approach to Maternal Cognitive Representations

Camilo

Garrido

Ferreira

et al. 2019

Journal of Family Issues

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From a cognitive information processing perspective, parents’ cognitive schemas strongly influence the way they perceive and act toward their children. In order to explore how maternal cognitive representations about parenting are organized in a multidimensional space, mothers referred to child protection services and mothers with no such reference completed a free description task of maternal attributes and a sorting task of those attributes according to their probability of co-occurrence in the same mother. Overall, the results suggest that maladaptive parenting seems to be associated with less positive parental schemata, higher schemata rigidity, and higher external attributions regarding parenting. Using multidimensional scaling to represent the structure and content of maternal schemata constitutes an innovative contribution to the parenting domain with potential applications. These conceptual maps representing maternal schemata that shape parental responses in child-rearing situations can be used as theoretical frameworks to develop empirically based guidelines for intervention work with maltreating parents.

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confidence: 99%