Keywords
Child abuse, Crying
Abstract
We compared the ability of several groups of women to distinguish infant cry-signals. The cry-signals were taped reproductions of the Wasz-Hockert et al., (1964) study. Subjects were mothers and non-mother practical nursing students and mothers known to have battered their children. The results supported previous findings on ability to recognize cry-signals by mothers and non-mothers. The findings were not supportive of our primary hypothesis to determine if abusive mothers were less likely to correctly identify infant cry-signals than non-abusive mothers.
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Graduation Date
Fall 1981
Advisor
Taylor, K. Phillip
Degree
Master of Arts (M.A.)
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Degree Program
Communication
Format
Pages
62 p.
Language
English
Rights
Public Domain
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Identifier
DP0013382
STARS Citation
Wright, Robert E., "Crying and Child Abuse: A Survey of Response to Infant Cry-Signals" (1981). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 604.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/rtd/604
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