Maternal emotions and self-efficacy beliefs in relation to boys and girls with AD/HD
Maternal emotions and self-efficacy beliefs in relation to boys and girls with AD/HD
This study examined the impact of child gender on mothers emotional responses to AD/HD, self-efficacy beliefs and perceived severity of AD/HD. Mothers (N = 118) of pre-schoolers were presented with a vignette describing a typical boy or girl with AD/HD and then completed three scales relating to their emotional response to AD/HD behaviour, their sense of parenting efficacy and their attributions about the severity of problems described. AD/HD behaviour elicited negative emotions and maternal self-efficacy was low, especially for male AD/HD. Perceived severity of the behaviour was negatively correlated with maternal sense of self-efficacy. These findings suggest that mothers of normal children have fixed negative emotions and low sense of self-efficacy towards a child with AD/HD and that these factors are key elements for change in the implementation of a therapeutic programme.
AD/HD - emotions - self-efficacy - sex differences - attributions
254-263
Maniadaki, Maniadaki
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Sonuga-Barke, Edmund
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Kakouros, Efthymios
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Karaba, Rania
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Maniadaki, Maniadaki
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Sonuga-Barke, Edmund
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Kakouros, Efthymios
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Karaba, Rania
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Maniadaki, Maniadaki, Sonuga-Barke, Edmund, Kakouros, Efthymios and Karaba, Rania
(2005)
Maternal emotions and self-efficacy beliefs in relation to boys and girls with AD/HD.
Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 35 (3), .
(doi:10.1007/s10578-004-6460-3).
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Abstract
This study examined the impact of child gender on mothers emotional responses to AD/HD, self-efficacy beliefs and perceived severity of AD/HD. Mothers (N = 118) of pre-schoolers were presented with a vignette describing a typical boy or girl with AD/HD and then completed three scales relating to their emotional response to AD/HD behaviour, their sense of parenting efficacy and their attributions about the severity of problems described. AD/HD behaviour elicited negative emotions and maternal self-efficacy was low, especially for male AD/HD. Perceived severity of the behaviour was negatively correlated with maternal sense of self-efficacy. These findings suggest that mothers of normal children have fixed negative emotions and low sense of self-efficacy towards a child with AD/HD and that these factors are key elements for change in the implementation of a therapeutic programme.
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Submitted date: March 2005
Keywords:
AD/HD - emotions - self-efficacy - sex differences - attributions
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Local EPrints ID: 54622
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/54622
ISSN: 0009-398X
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Maniadaki Maniadaki
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Edmund Sonuga-Barke
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Efthymios Kakouros
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Rania Karaba
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