Miriam Liss and Holly Schiffrin, along with former student Kathryn Rizzo, recently had a paper titled “Maternal Guilt and Shame: The Role of Self Discrepancy and Fear of Negative Evaluation” published in the November 2013 issue of the Journal of Child and Family Studies. This study found that women who had a gap between their perception of their own parenting traits and those they prescribed to the “ideal mother” had higher levels of guilt and shame. Women who feared the negative evaluation of others had particularly high levels of shame when they experienced the discrepancy between actual and ideal parenting styles.
Public radio show to feature UMW faculty Saturday (The Free Lance-Star)
Liss and Schiffrin Publish Article on Parenting Guilt and Shame
Why Paying Kids to Do Homework Can Backfire (Healthland.Time.Com)
Cash Incentives to get Children to do Homework Can Backfire, Study Reports (Counsel Heal.Com)
Helping, not Hovering: How to be a College Parent (Irish Times.Com)
How to Stop Being Helicopter Parents (Real Simple)
Hyper-parenting Demotivates Kids (Independent Online)
Helicopter Parents Can Make Their College Aged Children Depressed: Study (Huffington Post.Com)
Psychology Faculty and Students Present at APS
Miles-McLean, H., Schiffrin, H. H., Liss, M., *Geary, K., *Tashner, T., *Rizzo, K., & Erchull, M. J. (2013, May). Helping or hovering? The effects of helicopter parenting and autonomy support on college students’ mental health. Poster presented at the annual meeting for the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
NOTE: There were several other faculty at the conference that also presented with their students including Jennifer Mailloux, Hilary Stebbins, Debra Steckler, Miriam Liss, & Mindy Erchull (they had a poster with different students in addition to this one). So, you might want to contact them to get the complete information or you can search for their last names on the APS web site:
http://aps.psychologicalscience.org/convention/program_2013/search/?type=poster