Roberts M W
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1985 Dec;13(4):611-29. doi: 10.1007/BF00923145.
Praising child compliance is a common therapeutic recommendation to parents with noncompliant children. There are currently no studies documenting the independent contribution of the praise component to successful parent training programs. Three projects were designed to evaluate the hypotheses underlying the use of contingent praise routines. Namely, it has been suggested that conduct-disordered children are relatively unresponsive to adult approval at pretreatment, yet become responsive by posttreatment. In contrast to the hypotheses, data indicated that child compliance levels were not associated with child responsivity to maternal social reinforces; noncompliant children were responsive to maternal praise both before and after treatment; child responsivity to maternal praise did not covary with successful treatment; previously noncompliant but successfully treated children continued to comply to maternal instructions after contingent praise was withdrawn; a nonclinic child demonstrated extensive compliance persistence in the absence of contingent praise. Praising child compliance appeared to be more of a polite ritual than an active therapeutic component for altering noncompliance.
表扬孩子顺从是向不听话孩子的家长提出的一项常见治疗建议。目前尚无研究记录表扬这一因素对成功的家长培训项目的独立贡献。设计了三个项目来评估使用偶然表扬程序背后的假设。也就是说，有人提出，品行障碍儿童在治疗前对成人的认可反应相对迟钝，但在治疗后会变得有反应。与这些假设相反，数据表明，孩子的顺从程度与孩子对母亲社会强化的反应性无关；不听话的孩子在治疗前后都对母亲的表扬有反应；孩子对母亲表扬的反应性与成功治疗并无共变关系；以前不听话但已成功治疗的孩子在偶然表扬撤销后仍继续听从母亲的指示；一个非临床儿童在没有偶然表扬的情况下表现出广泛的顺从持续性。表扬孩子顺从似乎更像是一种礼貌性的惯例，而不是改变不顺从行为的积极治疗因素。
