Stable attributions of child behavior and parenting stress in parents of ADHD children.
Description:
The purpose of this study was to explore the differences in how parents of ADHD children and non-ADHD parents attribute undesirable and prosocial child behavior, and to determine if attributions about undesirable child behavior influence parents' perceived levels of parenting stress. Parent attributions from 69 parent-child dyads, half with a child ADHD diagnosis, were measured coding videotaped interactions. Results indicated that parents of ADHD children do not make significantly more stable …
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Date:
August 2002
Creator:
Besly, Katherine Dobbs
Partner:
UNT Libraries