TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1991//
TI  - Anxiety and coping dispositions as predictors of the visual interaction between mother and child
JO  - Anxiety research
A1  - Hock, Michael
A1  - Krohne, Heinz W.
SP  - 275
EP  - 286
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0891-7779
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08917779208248796
ID  - ref1
ER  -