Wednesday, February 1, 2017

The impact of parental modeling on child pain responses: The role of parent and child sex

Social modeling is a process by which pain behaviours are learned, and research has found parents act as models for their children’s behaviour. Despite social learning theory predicting that same-sex models have greater impact, no experimental investigation to date has examined the role of sex of the model or observer in social learning of pediatric pain. The present study recruited 168 parent-child dyads (equal father-son, father-daughter, mother-son, and mother-daughter dyads) where children were generally healthy 6- to 8-year-olds.

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