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- How does mothering look like: a multidimensional approach to maternal cognitive representationsPublication . Camilo, Cláudia; Garrido, M. V.; Ferreira, Mário B.; Calheiros, M MFrom a cognitive information processing perspective, parents’ cognitive schemas strongly influence the way they perceive and act toward their children. In order to explore how maternal cognitive representations about parenting are organized in a multidimensional space, mothers referred to child protection services and mothers with no such reference completed a free description task of maternal attributes and a sorting task of those attributes according to their probability of co-occurrence in the same mother. Overall, the results suggest that maladaptive parenting seems to be associated with less positive parental schemata, higher schemata rigidity, and higher external attributions regarding parenting. Using multidimensional scaling to represent the structure and content of maternal schemata constitutes an innovative contribution to the parenting domain with potential applications. These conceptual maps representing maternal schemata that shape parental responses in child-rearing situations can be used as theoretical frameworks to develop empirically based guidelines for intervention work with maltreating parents.
- Gostar ou elevar... Eis a questão: Normas de valência e de conteúdo espacial de uma lista de palavrasPublication . Garrido, Margarida V.; Azevedo, Catarina; Prada, Marília; Correia Dos Santos, Ana SofiaEste estudo apresenta normas de valência (positiva/negativa) e de conteúdo espacial (cima/baixo) de 336 palavras. A partir das avaliações independentes da valência e do conteúdo espacial de uma lista de palavras foi possível calcular, para cada dimensão, a média, intervalos de confiança e desvio- -padrão de cada palavra. Esta análise permitiu identificar 63 palavras de valência positiva, 61 de valência negativa e 94 neutras na dimensão de valência. Identificaram-se ainda 66 palavras associa - das ao construto espacial “cima”, 79 ao construto espacial “baixo” e 45 a uma localização espacial “intermédia”. Os resultados revelaram também uma associação entre valência e conteúdo espacial, indicando que palavras “positivas” se associam ao construto espacial “cima”, enquanto que as “negativas” se associam ao construto espacial “baixo”. A avaliação nas duas dimensões apresenta uma correlação forte e positiva indicando que quanto mais “positiva” a avaliação da valência das palavras mais estas se associam ao construto espacial “cima”. Este material estímulo poderá contribuir para clarificar os mecanismos subjacentes à relação metafórica valência/posição espacial vertical, permitindo, nomeadamente a manipulação ortogonal e, consequentemente, a identificação do contributo individual de cada dimensão para as associações observadas.
- How Does Mothering Look Like: A Multidimensional Approach to Maternal Cognitive RepresentationsPublication . Camilo, Cláudia; Garrido, M. V.; Ferreira, Mário B.; Calheros, M. M.From a cognitive information processing perspective, parents’ cognitive schemas strongly influence the way they perceive and act toward their children. In order to explore how maternal cognitive representations about parenting are organized in a multidimensional space, mothers referred to child protection services and mothers with no such reference completed a free description task of maternal attributes and a sorting task of those attributes according to their probability of co-occurrence in the same mother. Overall, the results suggest that maladaptive parenting seems to be associated with less positive parental schemata, higher schemata rigidity, and higher external attributions regarding parenting. Using multidimensional scaling to represent the structure and content of maternal schemata constitutes an innovative contribution to the parenting domain with potential applications. These conceptual maps representing maternal schemata that shape parental responses in child-rearing situations can be used as theoretical frameworks to develop empirically based guidelines for intervention work with maltreating parents.
- The social image of families of children and youth in residential care: a characterization and comparison with mainstream families with different socioeconomic statusPublication . Patrício, Joana; Lopes, Diniz; Garrido, M. V.; Calheros, M. M.The literature suggests that families of children and youths in residential care are often associated with negative social images. These images may shape prejudiced attitudes and behavior toward them and, when shared by care professionals, compromise the effectiveness of family intervention and reintegration. This study explored these social images in a sample of 176 participants with and without professional contact with this population. Participants were asked to indicate five attributes describing families of children or youths living in residential care or in mainstream environments with low or medium socioeconomic status (SES). Results indicated that both families of children and youths in residential care and families of low SES were predominantly described with negative attributes. However, only the former were characterized by dysfunctional parenting-related attributes. Medium SES families were overall described with positive attributes. Furthermore, these social images were organized in different profiles. Implications for family intervention and reintegration are discussed
- Good is up: A metaphor or a confound?Publication . Azevedo, C. M.; Garrido, M. V.; Prada, Marília; Correia Dos Santos, Ana Sofia