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Lewis, Jeffrey – 1990
This study investigated the way in which parental beliefs moderate affective reactions to children at risk for abuse. A sample of 40 unrelated mothers was drawn from a larger research project. At-risk and not-at-risk children were recruited from 40 families participating in counseling at a local child abuse agency. At-risk status was determined…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, At Risk Persons, Attribution Theory, Beliefs
Lewis, Jeffrey – 1989
In order to study signs of stress in speech directed to children at risk for abuse, sentences matched on content were collected from audio recordings of adult-child interactions. The children were audiotaped during an unstructured interaction with both their own mother and an unrelated mother. A total of 40 sibling pairs, each including one…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Behavior Problems, Child Abuse, Communication Research