Retrospective reports of college students' childhood problems

Abstract

College students and a subsample of their mothers and fathers participated in a study examining their retrospective reports of childhood emotional and behavioral problems experienced by college students. College students and their mothers and fathers exhibited moderate correspondence in their recollection of internalizing and externalizing problems that college students experienced during their childhood. In contrast, college students tended to endorse significantly greater levels of both internalizing and externalizing problems relative to their mothers and fathers. Current psychological symptoms predicted the greater endorsement of childhood internalizing and externalizing problems by college students and the greater endorsement of college students' childhood internalizing problems by their mothers. Further, college students' current perceptions of their parents predicted their endorsement of childhood internalizing problems, and college students' current masculinity and femininity predicted their endorsement of childhood externalizing problems. Results of this study emphasized the importance of noting factors that may be related to retrospective reports.

Relationship of Adult Representations of Childhood Parenting and Personality Tendencies to Adult Stressors and Political Ideology

“…Our retrospective measures of childhood parenting and early childhood psychological tendencies proved to be significantly related to one another and predictive of Block and Block (2006) and Feld (1995), as well as findings in related retrospective studies (e.g., Heer 2008;Klein et al 1996;Renk et al 2005). Parenting styles appear linked to early childhood psychological tendencies in predictable directions: authoritative parenting facilitates childhood confidence but authoritarian contributes to childhood dependency (Bornstein 1992).…”

“…The retrospective studies most directly linked to the focus of the current study include Heer (2008), Klein et al (1996), and Renk et al (2005). One of the salient findings of the Heer study was that authoritative parenting from both mothers and fathers predicted secure attachments in adult relationships.…”

Confounding, Mediation, or Independent Effect? Childhood Psychological Abuse, Mental Health, Mood/Psychological State, COPD, and Migraine

“…However, dissociation may also be independent of CPA and other childhood traumatic experiences and events (Seligman & Kirmayer, 2008). Moreover, it is plausible that some mentally unhealthy individuals recall their childhood as worse than it really was (Renk, Roberts, Klein, Rojas-Vilches, & Sieger, 2005; Sheikh et al, 2016b). It is therefore necessary to ascertain whether the association between CPA and onset of COPD and migraine is independent of respondent’s current mood/psychological state and mental health.…”

A Consistência das Memórias da Infância

“…Segundo Brewer (1994), tanto a perspetiva da memória autobiográfica, que coloca a ênfase em uma cópia fotográfica do sucedido em acontecimentos passados, como a perspetiva que dá primazia à reconstrução do vivido não são apoiadas empiricamente. O relato do passado pessoal seria moldado de acordo com as expetativas, estereótipos, crenças e metas atuais do indivíduo (e.g., Neisser, 1994;Pillemer & White, 1989;Wang, Leichtman, & White, 1998), que incidem sobre informações gerais registradas sob a forma de esquemas (Renk, Roberts, Klein, Rojas-Vilches, & Sieger, 2005). Também a forma como os indivíduos lidam com experiências passadas emocionalmente negativas poderá influenciar a recordação destas (Bohanek, Fivush, & Walker, 2005).…”

“…Em um estudo de Bernard, Killworth, Kronenfeld e Sailor (1984), os relatos retrospetivos feitos pelas mães, por exemplo, sobre as aptidões escolares e o estado de saúde dos filhos continham incorreções, sobretudo devidas a omissões, que atingiam valores entre 35 a 75%. Em outro estudo, Renk et al (2005) avaliaram 185 estudantes universitários (com idades compreendidas entre os 18 e os 22 anos) e seus respetivos pais e mães, utilizando o Youth Self -Report (Achenbach, 1991a) e o Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach, 1991b). Esses autores obtiveram uma correspondência moderada entre os problemas de internalização e de externalização relatados por pais e filhos retrospetivamente.…”