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Wang Z, Deater-Deckard K, Bell MA. The Role of Negative Affect and Physiological Regulation in maternal attribution. Parent Sci Pract. 2016;16(3):206-218doi: 10.1080/15295192.2016.1158604.
Wang, Z., Deater-Deckard, K., & Bell, M. A. (2016). The Role of Negative Affect and Physiological Regulation in maternal attribution. Parenting, science and practice, 16(3), 206-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2016.1158604
Wang, Zhe, et al. "The Role of Negative Affect and Physiological Regulation in maternal attribution." Parenting, science and practice vol. 16,3 (2016): 206-218. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2016.1158604
Wang Z, Deater-Deckard K, Bell MA. The Role of Negative Affect and Physiological Regulation in maternal attribution. Parent Sci Pract. 2016;16(3):206-218. doi: 10.1080/15295192.2016.1158604. Epub 2016 Apr 27. PMID: 27667969; PMCID: PMC5032649.
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Parent Sci Pract. 2016;16(3):206-218. doi: 10.1080/15295192.2016.1158604. Epub 2016 Apr 27.

The Role of Negative Affect and Physiological Regulation in maternal attribution.

Parenting, science and practice

Zhe Wang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Martha Ann Bell

Affiliations

  1. Virginia Tech.
  2. Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, 109 Williams Hall (0436), Blacksburg, VA, 24061.

PMID: 27667969 PMCID: PMC5032649 DOI: 10.1080/15295192.2016.1158604

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Mothers who attribute child misbehaviors to children's intentions, and not to situational causes, show more hostile parenting behaviors. Why are some mothers more likely than others to make more hostile attributions (i.e., high intentional attributions and low situational attributions) when confronted with child challenging behaviors? We examined the relation between mothers' perception of child challenging behaviors and their hostile attributions of child misbehaviors, with an emphasis on how maternal negative affect and resting vagal activity moderated this relation.

DESIGN: 160 mothers of 3- to 7-year-old children reported their perceptions of child problem behaviors, their attributions regarding child misbehaviors, and their temperamental negative affect. Mothers' respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) was measured during resting state.

RESULTS: Maternal perceptions of child challenging behaviors were positively related to hostile maternal attributions, and this relation was strongest in mothers with high negative affect and low resting RSA.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings indicate the importance of considering mothers' affective and physiological attributes when examining social-cognitive processes in parenting.

Keywords: RSA; attribution; negative affect; parenting; perception of challenging child behaviors

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