Discrepancies in perceptions of maternal aggression
Implications for children of methadone‐maintained mothers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9052630 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica L Borelli (0000-0001-8471-6732, Pomona College), Suniya S Luthar (0000-0003-3068-4469, Columbia University), Nancy E Suchman (0000-0001-8020-1985, Yale University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 412-421 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9432 • E-ISSN: 1939-0025 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2010.01044.x |
| PMID | 20636946 |
| PMCID | PMC3308352 |
| OpenAlex | W2112351493 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 62 |
Despite a long history of documenting discrepancies in parent and child reports of parental care and child psychopathology, it has only been in recent years that researchers have begun to consider these discrepancies as meaningful indicators of parent-child relationship quality and as predictors of long-term child adjustment. Discrepancies in perceptions of parenting may be particularly important for the children of mothers with a history of substance abuse who may be less aware of the impact of their behavior on their child and of their child's internalizing symptoms. This study examined associations between (a) mother-child discrepancies in reports of maternal aggression, and (b) mother and child reports of child internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Data collected from 99 mother-child dyads (with children 4-16 years of age) during the baseline phase of a randomized clinical trial testing a parenting intervention were used in this study. Measures included parent and child versions of the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire and the Behavioral Assessment Scale for Children. Findings indicated that as children viewed their mothers as increasingly more aggressive than mothers viewed themselves, children reported more internalizing and externalizing symptoms but mothers only reported more child externalizing symptoms. Mother-child discrepancies in reports of parenting behavior have potentially meaningful implications for child emotional and behavioral problems
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |