My child and I: self- and child-reference effects among parents with self-worth contingent on children's performance.
Memory
; 31(9): 1244-1257, 2023 10.
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ABSTRACT
Research shows that parents' self-worth may be contingent on their children's performance, with implications for their interactions with children. This study examined whether such child-based worth is manifested in parents' recognition memory. Parents of school-age children in China (N = 527) reported on their child-based worth and completed a recognition memory task involving evaluative trait adjectives encoded in three conditions self-reference, child-reference, and semantic processing. The more parents had child-based worth, the more they exhibited a child-reference effect - superior recognition memory of evaluative trait adjectives encoded with reference to the child rather than semantically. Parents exhibited the classic self-reference effect in comparisons of recognition memory between the self-reference and semantic processing conditions, but this effect was not evidenced among parents high in child-based worth. Only parents low in child-based worth exhibited the self-reference effect in comparisons between the self-reference and child-reference conditions. Findings suggest that when parents hinge their self-worth on children's performance, evaluative information related to children may be an elaborate structure in memory.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Base de données:
MEDLINE
Sujet principal:
Parents
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Limites:
Humans
Pays/Région comme sujet:
Asia
Langue:
En
Journal:
Memory
Sujet du journal:
PSICOLOGIA
Année:
2023
Type de document:
Article
Pays d'affiliation:
Chine