Jared Jackson

Abstract

Compliance with parental requests is an important developmental task necessary in the socialization of children. The majority of research has focused on the relationship between child compliance and variables related to age, parental interactions, and child temperament. While these variables account for almost half of the variance related to compliance in children, there is still a large amount of variance unaccounted for. An area that has not been fully explored is the role of verbal intelligence in behavioral compliance of children. This study explored the contributions that verbal intelligence may play in the behavioral compliance of children. Results from this study found no significant relationship between verbal intelligence and behavioral compliance. Although results were insignificant, study results did reveal a trend that suggests behavioral compliance decreases as verbal intelligence increases. The children in this study with the highest verbal intelligence exhibited the lowest levels of behavioral compliance suggesting complex interactions between skill and behavior. These results demonstrate the need to further examine this area with more complex models. Importantly, however these findings may have been influenced by the way data was collected (the nature of the questions) and the fact that all children in this study were from a clinical population.

LLU Discipline

Psychology

Department

Psychology

School

Graduate Studies

First Advisor

Kiti Freier

Second Advisor

Terrie L. Naramor

Third Advisor

David Vermeersch

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Degree Level

M.A.

Year Degree Awarded

2007

Date (Title Page)

8-2007

Language

English

Library of Congress/MESH Subject Headings

Behavior Therapy -- child; Child Behavior Disorders -- therapy; Parenting; Parent-Child Relations; Cooperative Behavior -- child; Social Behavior Disorders -- child; Verbal Learning

Type

Thesis

Page Count

v; 44

Digital Format

PDF

Digital Publisher

Loma Linda University Libraries

Usage Rights

This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has granted Loma Linda University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other copyrights.

Collection

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Collection Website

http://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/

Repository

Loma Linda University. Del E. Webb Memorial Library. University Archives

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