@article{ref1,
title="Impact of stress and mitigating information on evaluations, attributions, affect, disciplinary choices, and expectations of compliance in mothers at high and low risk for child physical abuse",
journal="Journal of interpersonal violence",
year="2006",
author="de Paúl, Joaquin and Asla, Nagore and Perez-Albeniz, Alicia and de Cádiz, Barbara Torres-Gomez",
volume="21",
number="8",
pages="1018-1045",
abstract="The objective is to know if high-risk mothers for child physical abuse differ in their evaluations, attributions, negative affect, disciplinary choices for children's behavior, and expectations of compliance. The effect of a stressor and the introduction of mitigating information are analyzed. Forty-seven high-risk and 48 matched low-risk mothers participated in the study. Mothers' information processing and disciplinary choices were examined using six vignettes depicting a child engaging in different transgressions. A four-factor design with repeated measures on the last two factors was used. High-risk mothers reported more hostile intent, global and internal attributions, more use of power assertion discipline, and less induction. A risk group by child transgression interaction and a risk group by mitigating information interaction were found. Results support the social information-processing model of child physical abuse, which suggests that high-risk mothers process child-related information differently and use more power assertive and less inductive disciplinary techniques.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-2605",
doi="10.1177/0886260506290411",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260506290411"
}