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Publication Date: 2004
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Compliance and Noncompliance in Anxious, Aggressive, and Socially Competent Children: The Impact of the Child's Game on Child and Maternal Behavior
Kotler, Julie S.; McMahon, Robert J.
Behavior Therapy, v35 n3 p495-512 Sum 2004
The present study examined the impact of the Child's Game parenting intervention (Forehand & McMahon, 1981; McMahon & Forehand, 2003) on child compliance, noncompliance, and aversive behavior in 3 groups of 20 nonreferred preschool children identified as high on dimensions of anxiety/withdrawal, anger/aggression, or social competence. The impact of the intervention on subtypes of compliance and noncompliance and on maternal behavior was also investigated. Child behavior was assessed using the command task, a structured observational procedure, at both pretest and posttest. Pretest and posttest (1 week later) maternal behavior was evaluated during a free-play period. Pretest group differences were evident in both maternal and child behavior. Pretest-posttest changes were observed in child behavior such that anxious/withdrawn and angry/aggressive children generally showed increases in compliance and decreases in noncompliance and aversive behavior while socially competent children showed no improvement on most behavioral measures. Pretest-posttest changes on subtypes of compliance and noncompliance were also evident and moderated by group membership.
Descriptors: Group Membership, Intervention, Pretests Posttests, Preschool Children, Child Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Competence, Compliance (Psychology), Behavior Problems, Aggression, Psychological Patterns, Social Development, Anxiety, Outcomes of Treatment, Program Effectiveness, Play, Mothers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Preschool Education
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Language: English
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