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Children's Perceptions of Maternal Hostility as a Mediator of the Link between Discipline and Children's Adjustment in Four Countries.

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Lansford, JE; Malone, PS; Dodge, KA; Chang, L; Chaudhary, N; Tapanya, S; Oburu, P; Deater-Deckard, K
Published in: International journal of behavioral development
September 2010

Using data from 195 dyads of mothers and children (age range = 8-12 years; M = 10.63) in four countries (China, India, the Philippines, and Thailand), this study examined children's perceptions of maternal hostility as a mediator of the links between physical discipline and harsh verbal discipline and children's adjustment. Both physical discipline and harsh verbal discipline had direct effects on mothers' reports of children's anxiety and aggression; three of these four links were mediated by children's perceptions of maternal hostility. In contrast, there were no significant direct effects of physical discipline and harsh verbal discipline on children's reports of their own anxiety and aggression. Instead, both physical discipline and harsh verbal discipline had indirect effects on the outcomes through children's perceptions of maternal hostility. We identified a significant interaction between perceived normativeness and use of harsh verbal discipline on children's perception of maternal hostility, but children's perception of the normativeness of physical discipline did not moderate the relation between physical discipline and perceived maternal hostility. The effects of harsh verbal discipline were more adverse when children perceived that form of discipline as being nonnormative than when children perceived that form of discipline as being normative. Results are largely consistent with a theoretical model positing that the meaning children attach to parents' discipline strategies is important in understanding associations between discipline and children's adjustment, and that cultural context is associated with children's interpretations of their parents' behavior.

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Published In

International journal of behavioral development

DOI

EISSN

1464-0651

ISSN

0165-0254

Publication Date

September 2010

Volume

34

Issue

5

Start / End Page

452 / 461

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Lansford, J. E., Malone, P. S., Dodge, K. A., Chang, L., Chaudhary, N., Tapanya, S., … Deater-Deckard, K. (2010). Children's Perceptions of Maternal Hostility as a Mediator of the Link between Discipline and Children's Adjustment in Four Countries. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 34(5), 452–461. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025409354933
Lansford, Jennifer E., Patrick S. Malone, Kenneth A. Dodge, Lei Chang, Nandita Chaudhary, Sombat Tapanya, Paul Oburu, and Kirby Deater-Deckard. “Children's Perceptions of Maternal Hostility as a Mediator of the Link between Discipline and Children's Adjustment in Four Countries.International Journal of Behavioral Development 34, no. 5 (September 2010): 452–61. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025409354933.
Lansford JE, Malone PS, Dodge KA, Chang L, Chaudhary N, Tapanya S, et al. Children's Perceptions of Maternal Hostility as a Mediator of the Link between Discipline and Children's Adjustment in Four Countries. International journal of behavioral development. 2010 Sep;34(5):452–61.
Lansford, Jennifer E., et al. “Children's Perceptions of Maternal Hostility as a Mediator of the Link between Discipline and Children's Adjustment in Four Countries.International Journal of Behavioral Development, vol. 34, no. 5, Sept. 2010, pp. 452–61. Epmc, doi:10.1177/0165025409354933.
Lansford JE, Malone PS, Dodge KA, Chang L, Chaudhary N, Tapanya S, Oburu P, Deater-Deckard K. Children's Perceptions of Maternal Hostility as a Mediator of the Link between Discipline and Children's Adjustment in Four Countries. International journal of behavioral development. 2010 Sep;34(5):452–461.
Journal cover image

Published In

International journal of behavioral development

DOI

EISSN

1464-0651

ISSN

0165-0254

Publication Date

September 2010

Volume

34

Issue

5

Start / End Page

452 / 461

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology