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  • Parenting Studies
  • Child Social Development

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  • Understanding parental responses to infant transgressions is crucial for child development.
  • Power assertion is a parenting strategy involving parental authority and control.
  • Limited research exists on the situational factors influencing mothers' power assertion.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine mothers' power assertion following infant transgressions.
  • To investigate factors influencing the frequency and nature of power assertion.
  • To explore the relationship between power assertion and infant behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Naturalistic observation of mother-infant interactions.
  • Assessment of mothers' power assertion following everyday infant transgressions.
  • Analysis of situational variables such as infant harm and severity of danger.

Main Results:

  • Mothers' power assertion demonstrated limited stability over time.
  • Power assertion increased with the age of the infant.
  • Mothers exhibited higher power assertion when infants were harming others or when the physical danger was more severe.

Conclusions:

  • Situational factors significantly influence mothers' power assertion.
  • Power assertion's role in social development requires further naturalistic investigation.
  • Understanding these dynamics is key to supporting positive child social development.