کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5040033 1473458 2017 20 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Children's differential susceptibility to parenting: An experimental test of “for better and for worse”
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روانشناسی رشد و آموزشی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Children's differential susceptibility to parenting: An experimental test of “for better and for worse”
چکیده انگلیسی


- Within-subject experiments are a powerful way to test differential susceptibility.
- Negative feedback increased negative affect and decreased positive affect.
- Positive feedback did not have robust effects on affect or behavior.
- Effects of feedback did not depend on negative emotionality.

Differential susceptibility theory proposes that a subset of individuals exist who display enhanced susceptibility to both negative (risk-promoting) and positive (development-enhancing) environments. This experiment represents the first attempt to directly test this assumption by exposing children in the experimental group to both negative and positive feedback using puppet role-plays. It thereby serves as an empirical test as well as a methodological primer for testing differential susceptibility. Dutch children (N = 190, 45.3% girls) between the ages of 4 and 6 years participated. We examined whether negative and positive feedback would differentially affect changes in positive and negative affect, in prosocial and antisocial intentions and behavior, depending on children's negative emotionality. Results show that on hearing negative feedback, children in the experimental group increased in negative affect and decreased in positive affect more strongly than children in the control group. On hearing positive feedback, children in the experimental group tended to increase in positive affect and decrease in prosocial behavior. However, changes in response to negative or positive feedback did not depend on children's negative emotionality. Moreover, using reliable change scores, we found support for a subset of “vulnerable” children but not for a subset of “susceptible” children. The findings offer suggestions to guide future differential susceptibility experiments.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology - Volume 154, February 2017, Pages 78-97
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