Journal article
A Developmental Interpretation of Young Children's Noncompliance
Developmental psychology, Vol.23(6), pp.799-806
11/1987
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.23.6.799
Abstract
This study examined developmental changes in maternal control strategies and children's responses to maternal directives and associations between the interactive strategies of mothers and children. The subjects were 70 dyads consisting of depressed and nondepressed mothers and their 1½- to 3½-year-old children. Data on parent and child behaviors were coded from videotapes of spontaneous interactions in a naturalistic apartment setting. Developmental analyses of maternal control strategies indicated a shift from the physical to the verbal modalities with age. Maternal explanations, bargaining, and reprimands increased with age and distraction decreased with age. Developmental changes in children's responses to control were consistent with a social skill perspective on children's noncompliance. Passive noncompliance and direct defiance decreased with age, whereas negotiation, the relatively more sophisticated form of resistance, increased with age. Mothers' use of reasoning and suggestion were associated with the children's use of negotiation as a form of resistance, whereas relatively direct maternal strategies were associated with the children's defiant responses. Girls were more compliant than boys, but only in families with well, rather than depressed, mothers.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Developmental Interpretation of Young Children's Noncompliance
- Creators
- Leon Kuczynski - Department of Family Studies, University of Guelph, Ontario, CanadaGrazyna Kochanska - Laboratory of Developmental Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MarylandMarian Radke-Yarrow - Laboratory of Developmental Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MarylandOna Girnius-Brown - Laboratory of Developmental Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Developmental psychology, Vol.23(6), pp.799-806
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/0012-1649.23.6.799
- ISSN
- 0012-1649
- eISSN
- 1939-0599
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/1987
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213276702771
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