Sensitive Discipline - Do and Don't

The Sensitive Discipline - Do and Don't tasks aim to measure parental sensitivity and discipline by observing a parent-child interaction when the parent has to instruct the child to do something (e.g., clean up toys, "Do"), and when parent has to forbid the child to do something (e.g., do not touch the toys while the parent plays with them, "Don't").

The task also allows for the assessment of compliance and active resistance in a disciplinary context (clean-up). In Generation R, the DoDon't task was only measured in a subgroup and performed at 3 years during the visit at the research centre, and at 4 years during a home visit.

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  • Generation R

  • 3 years
    •   OPC
    34 months - 4.7 years   From 2005-01-01 to 2009-12-31
  • 4 years
    •   OPC
    46 months - 6.2 years   From 2006-01-01 to 2010-12-31
    Mode of collection Observation    Behavioral/cognitive task
    Analysis unit Individual, Family
    Instrument name DoDon’t task
    Measure name Parental sensitivity
    References
    Kochanska, G., Coy, K. C., & Murray, K. T. (2001). The Development of Self‐Regulation in the First Four Years of Life. Child Development, 72(4), 1091–1111. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00336
    Van der Mark, I. L., Bakermans‐Kranenburg, M. J., & Van Ijzendoorn, M. H. (2002). The role of parenting, attachment, and temperamental fearfulness in the prediction of compliance in toddler girls. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20(3), 361–378. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1348/026151002320620299
    Kochanska, G., & Aksan, N. (1995). Mother-Child Mutually Positive Affect, the Quality of Child Compliance to Requests and Prohibitions, and Maternal Control as Correlates of Early Internalization. Child Development, 66(1), 236. https://doi.org/10.2307/1131203
    Kuczynski, L., Kochanska, G., Radke-Yarrow, M., & Girnius-Brown, O. (1987). A developmental interpretation of young children’s noncompliance. Developmental Psychology, 23(6), 799–806. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.23.6.799
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