Autonomic Reactivity to Social Challenge as a Function of Differences in Interpersonal Schemas.

Autor/in	Bugental, Daphne Blunt
Titel	Autonomic Reactivity to Social Challenge as a Function of Differences in Interpersonal Schemas.
Quelle	(1991), (23 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adult Child Relationship; Adults; Child Caregivers; Children; Defense Mechanisms; Emotional Response; Interpersonal Relationship; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Power Structure; Simulation; Social Adjustment; Social Psychology; Violence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Kind; Kinder; Abwehrverhalten; Emotionales Verhalten; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Simulation program; Simulationsprogramm; Soziale Anpassung; Sozialpsychologie; Gewalt
Abstract	Individual differences in the regulatory processes involved in managing difficult interpersonal interactions were investigated. Interpersonal systems that easily escalate to produce coercive or violent encounters in adult-child relationships were of particular interest. Adults who were predisposed to view adult-child interactions as containing threat were studied. The study, in which 160 mothers participated, involved a computer maze game and computer-simulated child behavior. Autonomic, cognitive, and behavioral measures were compared. Findings suggest that threat-oriented adults have an exaggerated response to potentially challenging encounters with children and may easily generate the hypothesis that interactions with children may be difficult. Because they assume a defensive response, threat-oriented adults are less able to shape their responses in a flexible fashion to the actual characteristics of a particular child. Contains 11 references. (LB)
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