The Association between Adaptive Functioning and Parents' Attributions for Children's Emotions

Autor/inn/en	Bougher-Muckian, Hilary R.; Root, Amy E.; Floyd, Kimberly K.; Coogle, Christan Grygas; Hartman, Suzanne
Titel	The Association between Adaptive Functioning and Parents' Attributions for Children's Emotions
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 189 (2019) 9, S.1538-1552 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2017.1396979
Schlagwörter	Child Behavior; Social Behavior; Emotional Response; Parent Attitudes; Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Negative Attitudes; Correlation; Fear; Psychological Patterns; Adjustment (to Environment); Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Emotionales Verhalten; Elternverhalten; Autismus; Negative Fixierung; Korrelation; Furcht
Abstract	Research suggests that adaptive functioning influences parents' attributions for children's social behaviours. However, the influence of adaptive functioning on parents' attributions for children's emotional expressions is yet to be examined. The purpose of this study was to determine the association between adaptive functioning of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and parents' attributions for children's negative emotional expressions. Participants included 68 parents of children with ASD ages 3-11 (Mage = 7.2; SD = 6.82). Parents completed two questionnaires: one measuring adaptive functioning and one measuring parents' attributions for their children's emotional expressions. Positive associations were found between: (1) parents' internal modifiable attributions for overall negative emotions (i.e. fear, anger, sadness aggregate), fear, and anger; (2) parents' external modifiable attributions for overall negative emotion, fear, and sadness; and (3) parents' disability-based attributions and fear. Tentatively, these results indicate that attribution retraining may be an important focus for interventions with parents of children with ASD. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01