Mother responsiveness and instruction strategy : joined or separate pathways to child cooperation?

Author

Vanessa Ann Vigilante

Date of Award

8-2003

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Major

Psychology

Major Professor

Robert G. Wahler

Abstract

Investigated the natural home interactions of 24 volunteer and 20 clinic-referred mother-child dyads during a one-hour observation. Observers coded mother instructions strategy ("Do" or "Don't"), child compliance, child negativity, and mother responsiveness. These categories were compared through descriptive, correlational, and regression mediation analyses to assess the association between mother instruction strategy, mother responsiveness, and child compliance. As hypothesized, mother responsiveness accounted for most of the variance in child compliance and was mediated by mother's use of "Do" instructions. Results were discussed within a theoretical framework in which the mother responsiveness construct was expanded to include her instructional strategy.

Recommended Citation

Vigilante, Vanessa Ann, "Mother responsiveness and instruction strategy : joined or separate pathways to child cooperation?. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2003.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/5311