Analog assessment of frustration tolerance: association with self-reported child abuse risk and physiological reactivity

Child Abuse & Neglect
Christina M RodriguezJohn C Kircher

Abstract

Although frustration has long been implicated in promoting aggression, the potential for poor frustration tolerance to function as a risk factor for physical child abuse risk has received minimal attention. Instead, much of the extant literature has examined the role of anger in physical abuse risk, relying on self-reports of the experience or expression of anger, despite the fact that this methodology is often acknowledged as vulnerable to bias. Therefore, the present investigation examined whether a more implicit, analog assessment of frustration tolerance specifically relevant to parenting would reveal an association with various markers of elevated physical child abuse risk in a series of samples that varied with regard to age, parenting status, and abuse risk. An analog task was designed to evoke parenting-relevant frustration: the task involved completing an unsolvable task while listening to a crying baby or a toddler's temper tantrum; time scores were generated to gauge participants' persistence in the task when encountering such frustration. Across these studies, low frustration tolerance was associated with increased physical child abuse potential, greater use of parent-child aggression in discipline encounters, dysfu...Continue Reading

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May 28, 2019·Brain Imaging and Behavior·Krista M WisnerL Elliot Hong
Jan 14, 2017·Journal of Child and Family Studies·Christina M RodriguezPaul J Silvia
Nov 4, 2020·Journal of Interpersonal Violence·Julie L CrouchJoel S Milner

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