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The Relationships Between Parenting Factors And Parental Sensitivity To The Child's Depression, Sara Thompson
The Relationships Between Parenting Factors And Parental Sensitivity To The Child's Depression, Sara Thompson
Senior Honors Theses and Projects
Parenting, and its effects on a child, has been an area of interest in psychology for many years. By studying parental attachment, parenting confidence, and other parenting aspects, we get a better understanding of how the parent-child relationship functions. This study will utilize children's self reports of their depression and the parents' reports of their child's depression, to examine parental attachment and parenting confidence and how those two factors relate to the parent's sensitivity to their child's depression. The results from this study have possible implications for how to better structure the child's home environment, how to help the child …
Quality Of Caregiving Representations Among Pregnant Mothers Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence, Kristina Borneman
Quality Of Caregiving Representations Among Pregnant Mothers Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence, Kristina Borneman
Senior Honors Theses and Projects
During pregnancy women typically reorganize their mental representations of themselves and others to make room for the internal representation of their new child and themselves as caregivers. Representations during this transformational period have been shown to predict postnatal caregiving behavior. The purpose of this study is to assess the influence of physical and psychological intimate partner violence on maternal prenatal representations, namely, through a qualitative analysis of maternal narratives from the Working Model of the Child Interview (Zeanah & Beniot 1995), a well-established, semi-structured clinical tool. Four predominant themes emerged: helplessness, caregiving abdication, rigid attitudes and beliefs about gender roles, …