Unrealistic expectations of parents who maltreat their children: An educational deficit that pertains to child development
✍ Scribed by Craig T. Twentyman; Ron C. Plotkin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 509 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
Forty-one parents estimated when their own child and an "average" child would attain a number of different developmental milestones. These milestones and the accompanying normative data were derived from the Vineland Social Maturity Scale (Doll, 1965). Parents were divided into three groups on the basis of a prior history of child abuse, child neglect, or no previous background of abuse or neglect. Results indicate that both the abuse and neglect groups differed from the comparison grou when absolute difference scores from the normative data were analyzed. Wgen directionality of scores were analyzed (i.e., too high or too low expectations for the child), no differences were found among the groups. Implications of an educational deficit model of unrealistic parental expectations were discussed.