Thesis
Predicting mothers' social coaching qualities: the role of children's characteristics and maternal social beliefs
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/100691
Abstract
This study was designed to explore the effects of child characteristics and maternal social beliefs on mothers’ social coaching qualities. We hypothesized positive associations between children’s emotion regulation, mothers’ beliefs about the importance and modifiability of social skills and the levels of effective mothers’ social coaching. Negative associations were expected between children’s victimization status and negativity and effective social coaching. We further expected that the effects of children’s characteristics on mothers’ social coaching would be moderated by mothers’ social beliefs. Ninety-five mothers of preschool children read stories depicting aggressive peer conflicts with their children during a laboratory session. Conversations were coded for maternal elaboration, emotion references, and communication of rule violation. Mothers provided information on child emotionality (negativity and emotion regulation) and relational and physical victimization. Simple correlations revealed few associations between child characteristics, maternal beliefs, and social coaching qualities. The results of a series of regression models, however, provided some support for our hypotheses. Mothers who believed social skills were more important engaged in more elaborative discussions with children about peer conflicts and they made somewhat more emotion references during the conversations. Numerous interactions of maternal beliefs and child characteristics were found in models predicting maternal elaboration and emotion references. Contrary to predictions, follow-up analyses revealed that child characteristics moderated the effects of mothers’ beliefs on social coaching qualities. Recommendations for future study as well as practical implications were also discussed.
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- Title
- Predicting mothers' social coaching qualities
- Creators
- Han-Yun Tseng
- Contributors
- Nicole E. Werner (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Human Development, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900524801901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis