Compulsive compliance: the development of an inhibitory coping strategy in infancy
| Autor: | David L. DiLalla, Patricia M. Crittenden |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
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Child abuse
Male Coping (psychology) Personality development Victimology Social environment Behavioral pattern Infant Social Environment Social relation Mother-Child Relations Developmental psychology Psychiatry and Mental health Inhibition Psychological Personality Development Adaptation Psychological Developmental and Educational Psychology Compulsive Behavior Humans Female Child Abuse Cooperative Behavior Psychology Child neglect |
| Zdroj: | Journal of abnormal child psychology. 16(5) |
| ISSN: | 0091-0627 |
| Popis: | This study explored the development of young children's behavioral strategies for coping with child abuse. It was hypothesized that infants exposed to the controllingness and harshness of interaction with an abusive mother would first learn to inhibit behavior disagreeable to the mother and later learn to comply with maternal demands. It was expected that this developmental change in abused children's behavior would be adaptive in the short term because it would reduce the probability of continued abuse. In the long term, however, compulsive compliance was expected to be maladaptive because it distorted the child's perception of, and response to, reality. In addition, it was hypothesized that the compliant behavior pattern would be used only with controlling interactants during the first 3 years of life. In other words, the descriptions of defensive patterns of behavior applied indiscriminantly by older abused children were not expected to apply to infants and toddlers. Both hypotheses were supported using data drawn from videotapes of mother-child and other adult-child interaction. |
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