TY - JOUR
T1 - Mothers' emotion dynamics and their relations with harsh and lax discipline
T2 - Microsocial time series analyses
AU - Lorber, Michael F.
AU - Slep, Amy M Smith
N1 - Funding Information:
Michael Lorber is now at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota. Preparation of this article was supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grant R01 MH67043. Portions of this article were presented at the 36th Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy Convention in Reno, NV, November 2002.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Hypotheses were tested about how moment-by-moment variation in mothers' negative emotion predicts harsh and lax discipline. Mother-toddler dyads interacted in a task designed to elicit challenging child behavior. Mothers viewed videotapes of their interactions and continuously rated their experienced emotion. Harsh discipline was associated with mothers' greater negative emotion intensity, greater dependence of mothers' emotion on toddlers' negative affect, and lower serial predictability of mothers' emotion. Laxness was also associated with greater emotion dependence on negative toddler affect and lower serial predictability but not with negative emotion intensity. The dependence of mothers' emotion on toddlers' rule violations was not associated with discipline. Dynamic emotion variables were not redundant with emotion intensity and therefore enhance our understanding of the role of emotion in discipline.
AB - Hypotheses were tested about how moment-by-moment variation in mothers' negative emotion predicts harsh and lax discipline. Mother-toddler dyads interacted in a task designed to elicit challenging child behavior. Mothers viewed videotapes of their interactions and continuously rated their experienced emotion. Harsh discipline was associated with mothers' greater negative emotion intensity, greater dependence of mothers' emotion on toddlers' negative affect, and lower serial predictability of mothers' emotion. Laxness was also associated with greater emotion dependence on negative toddler affect and lower serial predictability but not with negative emotion intensity. The dependence of mothers' emotion on toddlers' rule violations was not associated with discipline. Dynamic emotion variables were not redundant with emotion intensity and therefore enhance our understanding of the role of emotion in discipline.
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U2 - 10.1207/s15374424jccp3403_11
DO - 10.1207/s15374424jccp3403_11
M3 - Article
C2 - 16026219
AN - SCOPUS:25144482832
SN - 1537-4416
VL - 34
SP - 559
EP - 568
JO - Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
JF - Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
IS - 3
ER -