@article{ref1,
title="Caregivers' attributions about children's misbehavior in child-care centers",
journal="Journal of applied developmental psychology",
year="1994",
author="Scott-Little, M. Catherine and Holloway, SD",
volume="15",
number="2",
pages="241-253",
abstract="How do training, education level, and child-rearing ideology relate to the attributions caregivers make concerning children's misbehavior in child-care classrooms? How does caregivers' attributional reasoning relate to their behavioral management strategies? These questions were addressed with data from 40 head teachers employed in 34 center-based child-care settings. Via questionaires, caregivers responded to four hypothetical incidents in which a 4-year-old child either committed a norm violation or failed to act altruistically. Caregivers offered attributions for the misbehavior and indicated their probable behavioral response. Results indicated that caregivers who were relatively authoritarian in their child-rearing ideology, had received less training in early childhood education, and had fewer years ofschooling, were more likely to attribute hypothetical misbehavior--particularly norm violations--to factors internal to the child. Caregivers emphasizing internal attributions were particularly likely to propose control strategies characterized by power assertion, disapproval, and sternness rather than redirection or ignoring the misbehavior.<p />",
language="",
issn="0193-3973",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}