Children's Narrative Representations of Mothers: Their Development and Associations With Child and Mother Adaption

Parenting behaviors and relationships can have a strong impact on children's well-being. Relationships between four and five year old’s behavior, representations of their mothers (i.e., negative, positive, disciplinary), and mother’s psychological health were examined. Children with more positive, more disciplinary, and less negative representations of their mothers had fewer behavior problems at both four and five years of age.