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Maternal presence, childrearing practices, and children's response to an injection
Author(s) -
Broome Marion E.,
Endsley Richard C.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/nur.4770120405
Subject(s) - permissive , immunization , developmental psychology , psychology , medicine , public health , clinical psychology , nursing , virology , antigen , immunology
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of maternal presence or absence and childrearing practices on young children's response to an injection. One hundred thirty‐eight mothers and their children, who were attending a health screening clinic, were assigned to one of four groups in which mothers were either present or absent during an interview and an immunization. Mothers were asked to fill out a questionnaire about their childrearing practices. Child behavior was observed during both the interview and the immunization. Results indicated that while maternal presence was associated with the children behaving more distressed during the interview, maternal presence had no effect on child behavior during the immunization. Children whose mothers reported high levels of both control and warmth in their relationship (authoritative parents) were found to be significantly less distressed during the immunization than children of either the low‐control, high‐warmth (permissive), high‐control, low‐warmth (authoritarian) or low‐control, low‐warmth (nonresponsive) parent groups.