Spotlight on Maternal Perceptions of Child Behavior: A Daily Diary Study with Child Welfare-Involved Mothers.

When considered in concert with coping, maternal stress only significantly predicted their reports that they still felt angry about their child’s misbehavior that day (misbehavior severity only approached significance); mothers who reported better coping characterized their children’s behavior as more positive that day (child behavior rating) and were significantly more likely to ascribe their children’s positive behavior that day to their personality and good mood. 4.

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