publication . Article . Other literature type . 2019

How Does Mothering Look Like: A Multidimensional Approach to Maternal Cognitive Representations:

Name: How Does Mothering Look Like: A Multidimensional Approach to Maternal Cognitive Representations:
Keywords: Maternal representations, Maladaptive parenting, Multidimensional scaling, Parent-child relations, Parental cognitions, :Ciências Sociais::Psicologia [Domínio/Área Científica], Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Mário B. Ferreira; Cláudia Camilo; Margarida Garrido; Maria Manuela Calheiros; Maria Manuela Calheiros;

Open Access English

Published: 05 Jul 2019

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Country: Portugal

Summary

Abstract

From a cognitive information processing perspective, parents’ cognitive schemas strongly influence the way they perceive and act toward their children. In order to explore how maternal cognitive representations about parenting are organized in a multidimensional space, mothers referred to child protection services and mothers with no such reference completed a free description task of maternal attributes and a sorting task of those attributes according to their probability of co-occurrence in the same mother. Overall, the results suggest that maladaptive parenting seems to be associated with less positive parental schemata, higher schemata rigidity, and...

doi: 10.1177/0192513x19860171

Subjects

free text keywords: Maternal representations, Maladaptive parenting, Multidimensional scaling, Parent-child relations, Parental cognitions, :Ciências Sociais::Psicologia [Domínio/Área Científica], Social Sciences (miscellaneous), Cognition, Cognitive psychology, Cognitive Information Processing, Schema (psychology), Psychology

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