Expectations of Behaviors of Mothers Preceding Initiation of Contact Comfort with Their Children

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13655503
AutoresDonald L King (Howard University, autor correspondente)
Ano1973
Volume33
Fascículo1
Páginas131-137
Data de publicação1973-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1973.33.1.131
OpenAlexW2064725429
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas10

Certain attentive behaviors (e.g., turning toward, speaking in a pleasant tone of voice) are probably social reinforcers. Responses to incomplete paragraphs indicated 32 male and 32 female students and 32 mothers expected that mothers' exhibition of certain attentive behaviors is followed by their initiating contact comfort with children relatively frequently. Ss also expected mothers would be less likely to deliver contact comfort if their children behaved inappropriately. These two results suggest that one reason attentive behaviors are social reinforcers is that they become associated with contact comfort and one way mothers socialize children is by making contact comfort contingent on children's exhibiting appropriate behavior

Body contact · Developmental psychology · Eye contact · Social contact · Tone (literature · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Psychology · Social Psychology