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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.
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Maternal representations Maladaptive parenting Multidimensional scaling Parent-child relations Parental cognitions
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Camilo, C., Garrido, M. V., Ferreira, M. B., & Calheiros, M. M. (2019). How does mothering look like: A multidimensional approach to maternal cognitive representations. Journal of Family Issues, 40(17), 2528-2552. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X19860171