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Publication Date: 1984
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"Difficult" Children as Elicitors and Targets of Adult Communication Patterns: An Attributional-Behavioral Transactional Analysis.
Bugental, D. B.; Shennum, W. A.
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, v49 n1 p1-18 1984
Uses a synthetic family strategy to demonstrate the operation of caregiving transactions with children judged either "difficult" or "easy." A total of 96 elementay-age boys were paired with unrelated mothers for videotaped interactions. Results focused on socially competent child behavior patterns. (CI)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Attribution Theory, Behavior Change, Beliefs, Child Caregivers, Children, Communication Research, Interpersonal Communication, Locus of Control, Males, Measures (Individuals), Models, Mothers, Nonverbal Communication, Parent Child Relationship, Perception, Social Behavior, Socialization
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