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11th European Conference of Psychology (ECP), Oslo, Norway, 7 - 10 July 2009
The effects of maternal
guilt induction on different aspects of self in children
Ahu Öztürk, F. Melike
Sayıl
Hacettepe University
A growing
body of research suggests that parental psychological control practices yield
mostly the negative psychological outcomes for children. It might also be the
case that at different ages a certain kind of psychological control might be
used by parents to control different aspects of self in children. Within a
developmental perspective, this study aimed to gather information of the
specific links between mothers’ guilt induction practice on the possible
children outcomes. Parents completed the 9 item guilt induction scale. Analysis
conducted separately for two samples. Although low levels of guilt induction
reported for both samples; it seems to be important in predicting a number of
child outcomes. Guilt induction facilitates on both positive and negative
outcomes; namely guilt induction positively predicts preschoolers’
non-aggressive attributions to socially ambiguous situations (moral self) and
negatively predicts child reported academic competency in primary school. These
results will be discussed within the related literature.