Maternal Parenting Attitudes and Preschoolers’ Hot and Cool Executive Functions

• Authors: Anna Kamza , Adam Putko , Agata Złotogórska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The relationships between maternal parenting attitudes and preschoolers’ hot and cool executive functions (EF) were examined. Forty-eight children aged 3 to 4 years and their mothers took part in the study. Self-report questionnaire concerning parenting attitudes was obtained from the mothers of children who performed a set of EF tasks. Additionally, both maternal and child verbal ability were controlled. It was found that maternal parenting attitudes were related only to child cool EF. Protecting attitude was positively related to child inhibitory control and autonomy support was negatively related to child set-shifting ability. Further analyses revealed that maternal autonomy support accounted for unique variance in child set-shifting, above and beyond the child’s age. On the other hand, protecting attitude accounted for unique variance in child inhibitory control, above and beyond child verbal ability. The findings provide further evidence for the importance of mother-child relationships in children’s EF development.

Keywords

EN

parent-child relationship; maternal attitudes; cool and hot executive functions; verbal ability

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 236-246

Dates

published

2016-06-01

online

2016-06-16

Contributors

author

Anna Kamza

• Instytut Psychologii, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Szamarzewskiego 89, 61-687 Poznań, Poland

author

Adam Putko

• Instytut Psychologii, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Szamarzewskiego 89, 61-687 Poznań, Poland

author

Agata Złotogórska

• Instytut Psychologii, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Szamarzewskiego 89, 61-687 Poznań, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ppb-2016-0028