@article{ref1,
title="Anxiety and coping dispositions as predictors of the visual interaction between mother and child",
journal="Anxiety research",
year="1991",
author="Hock, Michael and Krohne, Heinz W.",
volume="4",
number="4",
pages="275-286",
abstract="Abstract The ?model of coping modes? distinguishes four dispositionally determined patterns of behavior (coping modes) which become apparent in stressful situations: repression, sensitization, nondefensiveness, and high anxiety. Following from this model, the present study is aimed at assessing associations between coping modes and children's looking behavior towards their mothers in a moderately stress-inducing laboratory setting. The visual exchange of 63 mothers and their eight- to 14-year-old children was observed during a ten-minute planning period for a Punch and Judy show which the child had to later perform. A close visual orientation toward the mother was registered for sensitizers. While repressers showed a heightened frequency of gazes at their mothers, their total time of looking was comparatively short. In high-anxious children, frequency of gazes as well as total time of looking were low.<p />",
language="",
issn="0891-7779",
doi="10.1080/08917779208248796",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08917779208248796"
}