Relationship between parental discipline and children's ability to cope with stress

A preliminary investigation of the impact of maternal obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic disorder on parenting and children

“…The Parental Discipline Questionnaire (Zabin & Melamed, 1980) was also administered to mothers to assess their hypothetical responses to child anxiety. This questionnaire consists of 16 items representing situations in which children commonly become fearful and refuse to engage in the feared act.…”

“…The Parental Discipline Questionnaire was derived by Zabin and Melamed (1980) from research into common fears in childhood. All parental disciplinary techniques were found to significantly correlate with reported and observed child anxiety in a medical investigation.…”

Maternal Attitudes Toward Discipline: A Comparison of Children With Cancer and Non-Chronically Ill Peers

“…Final discipline response was evaluated because this was the situation hypothesized to differentiate the parents of children with cancer from controls. Following the questionnaire developed by Zabin and Melamed (1980), each alternative represented one of five possible discipline strategies: (a) "positive reinforcement," (b) "punishment," (c) "force," (d) "logic and rationalization," or (e) "giving in." Scores for the DSQ were derived by totaling the percentage of endorsements in each of the five discipline categories.…”

“…Comparison of parents of patients with cancer, parents of healthy peers, and parents of children with a non-life-threatening condition were made on the Child Development Questionnaire (Zabin & Melamed, 1980), a self-report measure that asks parents to describe how they would handle their children in 14 situations hypothesized to arouse fear, avoidance, or both in children. Parents chose from five responses that were coded into one of the following Downloaded by [University of York] at 14:45 05 June 2016 categories: Positive Reinforcement, Punishment, Force, Reinforcement of Dependency, and Modeling and Reassurance.…”

Cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety disorders in youth: Treatment specificity and mediation effects

“…Child Development Questionnaire (CDQ; Zabin & Melamed, 1980). The CDQ is a list of 15 situations representative of youth's most common fears (e.g., injection, approaching a dog, being teased) based on earlier surveys (Jersild, Markey, & Jersild, 1933;Pratt, 1945).…”