APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Associations between Maternal Endorsement of Conditional Regard and Preschoolers’ Imitation in Two Ethnic Groups
- Scarlett Tarrant
Department of Psychology - Courtney Chan
Pomona College - Courtney Chan
Claremont McKenna College - Patricia Smiley
Pomona College - Jessica Borelli
University of California, Irvine - Stacey Doan
Claremont McKenna College
Abstract
Controlling parenting impedes preschoolers’ autonomy on novel tasks. Stronger maternal endorsement of positive conditional regard (CR) to shape emotion expression and behavior predicts greater imitation on a simple task, for White dyads. Stronger positive plus negative CR predicts more imitation on a difficult block task, for White and Latinx dyads.
Families/Parenting
