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Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development 4/2011

01-08-2011 | Original Paper

Mothers’ Predictions of their Son’s Executive Functioning Skills: Relations to Child Behavior Problems

Auteur: Charlotte Johnston

Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development | Uitgave 4/2011

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Abstract

This study examined mothers’ ability to accurately predict their sons’ performance on executive functioning tasks in relation to the child’s behavior problems. One-hundred thirteen mothers and their 4–7 year old sons participated. From behind a one-way mirror, mothers watched their sons perform tasks assessing inhibition and planning skills. Before each task, mothers predicted how their sons would perform. Both the absolute discrepancy between mothers’ predictions and their child’s performance (summing both mothers’ over- and under-estimations), and the mothers’ under-estimations of their child’s performance accounted for significant variance in reports of child behavior problems. These predictions were significant even with the child’s age and level of task performance controlled. The results suggest that a mother’s lack of ability to accurately predict her child’s executive functioning skills may contribute to the development of child problems, perhaps through increased difficulties in parenting in a manner that is responsive to the child’s abilities.
Voetnoten
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Seven tasks were used in total, and were presented in randomized order across the families. However, only three of the tasks are included in this report. The remaining tasks were excluded because estimates of the internal consistency of scores across the trials of the task were unacceptable or because the tasks involved only a single trial and thus estimates of internal consistency could not be made.
 
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The regression analyses were re-run separately for both mother and teacher ratings of the child’s behavior problems. For the models using directional difference scores, the results were the same as with those using the composite mother/teacher ratings as the dependent variables. For the models using the absolute difference scores, results were essentially the same, except that the R 2 change statistics were only marginally significant. The composite child behavior rating, but incorporating variation in child behavior as noted by both raters, was chosen as the strongest measure.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Mothers’ Predictions of their Son’s Executive Functioning Skills: Relations to Child Behavior Problems
Auteur
Charlotte Johnston
Publicatiedatum
01-08-2011
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Child Psychiatry & Human Development / Uitgave 4/2011
Print ISSN: 0009-398X
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3327
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-011-0221-x

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