Cognitive biases in parents of children displaying externalizing behaviors.
(2016) IPSYDAY — Location: Louvain-la-Neuve (30.June.2016)
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- Intellectual disabilities (ID) appear to predispose children to heightened externalizing behaviors (EB) problems. Parents of children displaying EB present a memory recall bias: during assessments, they tend more to recall the child’s negative behaviors than the positive ones. While promising, studies on parents’ cognitive biases have been limited to this observation and do not consider children with ID. The present program will investigate the existence of cognitive biases in parents of children presenting ID and EB, biases consisting in a dysregulation in the parents’ preferential allocation of attention and/or memory towards their child’s negative behaviors or emotions, as compared to positive or neutral ones. These biases would play a role in maintaining child EB symptoms: the fact that the child preferentially receives parents’ attention during misbehaviors would constitute a reinforcement of the latter. The goal of this research is to test for the existence of such parental cognitive biases and to disentangle the information-processing biases at stake: Do parents present an attentional bias, a memory bias, or a combination of both?
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Galdiolo, S., Vandaudenard, S., & Dewinne, L. (2016). Cognitive biases in parents of children displaying externalizing behaviors. IPSYDAY, Louvain-la-Neuve. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/80928