The negative attribution processes of mothers of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
| Autor: | Yen Kuang Yang, Huei Lin Huang, Chung Ping Cheng, Syu Sin Li, Chun Yu Lin, June Hui Huang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Male Adolescent Child Behavior Mothers Anxiety Impulsivity Developmental psychology Intervention (counseling) Surveys and Questionnaires Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Humans Situational ethics Child Social Behavior Negativism Depression Middle Aged medicine.disease Mother-Child Relations Clinical Psychology Prosocial behavior Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity Attention deficit Optimal distinctiveness theory Female medicine.symptom Attribution Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Research in developmental disabilities. 35(1) |
| ISSN: | 1873-3379 |
| Popis: | The objective of this study was to investigate the attribution processes of mothers regarding children's prosocial behaviors, inattention, and hyperactivity/impulsivity (symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD) using two paradigms. The first paradigm involved multidimensional attributions. The second paradigm concerned making attributions of children's identical behaviors based on information such as consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency. The participants were 64 mothers of children with ADHD (7–13 years old) and 64 mothers with typical/normal children (7–12 years old). The results showed that mothers of typical children exhibited positive attribution styles or person attributions whereas mothers of children with ADHD exhibited negative attribution styles. Mothers of children with ADHD tended to make personal attributions of children's negative behaviors (e.g., inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity; HI) but made situational attributions of prosocial behaviors. The results of this study can be used in future studies of the effects of intervention on children with ADHD or in studies related to neurophysiology. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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