%0 Journal Article %T Impact of stress and mitigating information on evaluations, attributions, affect, disciplinary choices, and expectations of compliance in mothers at high and low risk for child physical abuse %J Journal of interpersonal violence %D 2006 %A de Paúl, Joaquin %A Asla, Nagore %A Perez-Albeniz, Alicia %A de Cádiz, Barbara Torres-Gomez %V 21 %N 8 %P 1018-1045 %X The objective is to know if high-risk mothers for child physical abuse differ in their evaluations, attributions, negative affect, disciplinary choices for children's behavior, and expectations of compliance. The effect of a stressor and the introduction of mitigating information are analyzed. Forty-seven high-risk and 48 matched low-risk mothers participated in the study. Mothers' information processing and disciplinary choices were examined using six vignettes depicting a child engaging in different transgressions. A four-factor design with repeated measures on the last two factors was used. High-risk mothers reported more hostile intent, global and internal attributions, more use of power assertion discipline, and less induction. A risk group by child transgression interaction and a risk group by mitigating information interaction were found. Results support the social information-processing model of child physical abuse, which suggests that high-risk mothers process child-related information differently and use more power assertive and less inductive disciplinary techniques.

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%G en %I SAGE Publishing %@ 0886-2605 %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260506290411