ArticleChild maltreatment2020
Are Negative Parental Attributions Predicted by Situational Stress?: From a Theoretical Assumption Toward an Experimental Answer.
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- Longitudinal Reciprocal Associations between Parental Child‑oriented Perfectionism, Negative Attribution, and Social Anxiety in Chinese Adolescents: A Five‑wave RI‑CLPM Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Navigating Stress: Exploring the Role of Empathy in Caregiving.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Characterizing beneficial change in parent attributions over the course of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Dosage in phase of treatment matters.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Parenting stress in parents with and without a mental illness and its relationship to psychopathology in children: a multimodal examination.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Spotlight on Maternal Perceptions of Child Behavior: A Daily Diary Study with Child Welfare-Involved Mothers.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
In an experimental within-subjects research design, we studied the theoretical assumption that stress predicts negative parental attributions, which until now was mainly studied using cross-sectional study designs. During home visits to 105 families, mothers and fathers were subjected to two experimental conditions and two control conditions. In the experimental conditions, parents completed the Parental Attributions of Child behavior Task (PACT, a computerized attribution task) under two different stressful conditions (i.e., cognitive load and white noise); in the control conditions, the PACT was completed without additional stressors. Furthermore, parents completed questionnaires about existing risk factors (i.e., partner-related stress, parenting stress, and abuse risk). There were no main effects of induced stress on attributions for fathers and mothers, but we found that a combination of induced situational stress (cognitive load) and high risk resulted in the most negative parental attributions in mothers. The discussion focuses on intensity and origin of stressors, comparison between mother and father attributions, implications for interventions, and possible future research directions.
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