... Lekeisha A. Sumner, Gail E. Wyatt, Dorie Glover, Jennifer V. Carmona, Tamra B. Loeb, Tina B. ... more ... Lekeisha A. Sumner, Gail E. Wyatt, Dorie Glover, Jennifer V. Carmona, Tamra B. Loeb, Tina B. Henderson, Dorothy Chin, and Rotrease S ... or worrying family members and disrupting relationships (Chin & Kroesen, 1999; Hays et al., 1993; Simoni, Mason, Marks, & Ruiz, 1995a, b ...
... Lekeisha A. Sumner, Gail E. Wyatt, Dorie Glover, Jennifer V. Carmona, Tamra B. Loeb, Tina B. ... more ... Lekeisha A. Sumner, Gail E. Wyatt, Dorie Glover, Jennifer V. Carmona, Tamra B. Loeb, Tina B. Henderson, Dorothy Chin, and Rotrease S ... or worrying family members and disrupting relationships (Chin & Kroesen, 1999; Hays et al., 1993; Simoni, Mason, Marks, & Ruiz, 1995a, b ...
Attribution theory predicts that when someone is perceived as responsible for a negative event, t... more Attribution theory predicts that when someone is perceived as responsible for a negative event, this inference elicits feelings of anger and anger evokes aggressive responding. In contrast, perceived nonresponsibility should be linked to feelings of sympathy and less aggression. These thinking-feeling-action linkages were applied to the domain of child maltreatment in the present study. In individual interviews, samples of abusive, at-risk, and nonabusive African American mothers were presented with videotaped scenarios depicting a target child engaged in misbehavior. Mothers rated the severity of the behavior, how responsible they perceived the child to be, their feelings of sympathy and anger, and how much punishment they would endorse, coded as mild to harsh. They also completed a measure of parental stress. Compared with nonabusive mothers, abusive mothers reported more stress, perceived the behavior as more negative, inferred the child to be more responsible, reported more anger, and endorsed harsher punishment. The attributional data of at-risk mothers consistently fell between that of the other two groups. Regression and path analyses documented a systematic pattern of thinking-feeling-action linkages in accord with attributional predictions. The usefulness of an attributional approach to child maltreatment and the implications of the findings as a model for intervention were discussed.
... Lekeisha A. Sumner, Gail E. Wyatt, Dorie Glover, Jennifer V. Carmona, Tamra B. Loeb, Tina B. ... more ... Lekeisha A. Sumner, Gail E. Wyatt, Dorie Glover, Jennifer V. Carmona, Tamra B. Loeb, Tina B. Henderson, Dorothy Chin, and Rotrease S ... or worrying family members and disrupting relationships (Chin & Kroesen, 1999; Hays et al., 1993; Simoni, Mason, Marks, & Ruiz, 1995a, b ...
... Lekeisha A. Sumner, Gail E. Wyatt, Dorie Glover, Jennifer V. Carmona, Tamra B. Loeb, Tina B. ... more ... Lekeisha A. Sumner, Gail E. Wyatt, Dorie Glover, Jennifer V. Carmona, Tamra B. Loeb, Tina B. Henderson, Dorothy Chin, and Rotrease S ... or worrying family members and disrupting relationships (Chin & Kroesen, 1999; Hays et al., 1993; Simoni, Mason, Marks, & Ruiz, 1995a, b ...
Attribution theory predicts that when someone is perceived as responsible for a negative event, t... more Attribution theory predicts that when someone is perceived as responsible for a negative event, this inference elicits feelings of anger and anger evokes aggressive responding. In contrast, perceived nonresponsibility should be linked to feelings of sympathy and less aggression. These thinking-feeling-action linkages were applied to the domain of child maltreatment in the present study. In individual interviews, samples of abusive, at-risk, and nonabusive African American mothers were presented with videotaped scenarios depicting a target child engaged in misbehavior. Mothers rated the severity of the behavior, how responsible they perceived the child to be, their feelings of sympathy and anger, and how much punishment they would endorse, coded as mild to harsh. They also completed a measure of parental stress. Compared with nonabusive mothers, abusive mothers reported more stress, perceived the behavior as more negative, inferred the child to be more responsible, reported more anger, and endorsed harsher punishment. The attributional data of at-risk mothers consistently fell between that of the other two groups. Regression and path analyses documented a systematic pattern of thinking-feeling-action linkages in accord with attributional predictions. The usefulness of an attributional approach to child maltreatment and the implications of the findings as a model for intervention were discussed.
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