Personal Contextual Characteristics and Cognitions: Predicting Child Abuse Potential and Disciplinary Style

Autor/in	Rodriguez, Christina M.
Titel	Personal Contextual Characteristics and Cognitions: Predicting Child Abuse Potential and Disciplinary Style
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 25 (2010) 2, S.315-335 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260509334391
Schlagwörter	Locus of Control; Discipline; Child Abuse; Coping; Cognitive Processes; Parenting Styles; Expectation; Parent Child Relationship; Stress Variables; Prediction; Risk; Prevention; Intervention + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Disziplin; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Bewältigung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Expectancy; Erwartung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Vorhersage; Risiko; Prävention; Vorbeugung
Abstract	According to Social Information Processing theory, parents' cognitive processes influence their decisions to engage in physical maltreatment, although cognitions occur in the context of other aspects of the parents' life. The present study investigated whether cognitive processes (external locus of control, inappropriate developmental expectations) predicted child abuse potential and overreactive disciplinary style beyond personal contextual factors characteristic of the parent (hostility, stress, and coping). 363 parents were recruited online. Results highlight the relative importance of the contextual characteristics (particularly stress, avoidant coping, and irritability) relative to cognitive processes in predicting abuse potential and overreactive discipline strategies, although an external locus of control also significantly contributed. Findings do not support that parents' developmental expectations uniquely predict elevated abuse risk. Results indicate stressed parents who utilize avoidance coping strategies are more likely to use overreactive discipline and report increased abuse potential. Findings are discussed with regard to implications for prevention/intervention efforts. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10