<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The study focused on verifying the relationship between the ability to meet parental goals, parental difficulty, the child's representation in the parent's mind, and aggressive directiveness. The project refers to Tomaszewski’s theory of action as well as to Gurycka's theory of parental mistakes, in which the inability to achieve parental goals is treated as the main cause of experienced parental difficulties. The analyses were performed on data collected from 158 mothers of preschool children. The analyses were performed using structural equations as well as associative algorithms and artificial intelligence algorithms: cluster analysis and artificial neural networks. The structural model revealed strong relations between variables. The cluster analysis revealed three characteristic profiles in the maternal population that are distinguished by the level of analyzed variables. The artificial neural network revealed that, on the basis of the variables included in the model, the parents’ results in aggressive directiveness can be predicted.</p></abstract>

The study focused on verifying the relationship between the ability to meet parental goals, parental difficulty, the child's representation in the parent's mind, and aggressive directiveness. The project refers to Tomaszewski’s theory of action as well as to Gurycka's theory of parental mistakes, in which the inability to achieve parental goals is treated as the main cause of experienced parental difficulties. The analyses were performed on data collected from 158 mothers of preschool children. The analyses were performed using structural equations as well as associative algorithms and artificial intelligence algorithms: cluster analysis and artificial neural networks. The structural model revealed strong relations between variables. The cluster analysis revealed three characteristic profiles in the maternal population that are distinguished by the level of analyzed variables. The artificial neural network revealed that, on the basis of the variables included in the model, the parents’ results in aggressive directiveness can be predicted.

Predicting Model for Aggressive Directiveness in Light of Tadeusz Tomaszewski's Theory of Action: Structural and Data Mining Approach

Psychology of Language and Communication

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The study focused on verifying the relationship between the ability to meet parental goals, parental difficulty, the child's representation in the parent's...

Predicting Model for Aggressive Directiveness in Light of Tadeusz Tomaszewski's Theory of Action: Structural and Data Mining Approach

Published Online: Oct 24, 2018

Page range: 354 - 371

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2018-0016

Keywords
theory of action, parental goals, difficult situation, aggressive directiveness, predictive model

© 2018 Agnieszka Szymańska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Predicting Model for Aggressive Directiveness in Light of Tadeusz Tomaszewski's Theory of Action: Structural and Data Mining Approach

Published Online: Oct 24, 2018

Page range: 354 - 371

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2018-0016

Keywordstheory of action, parental goals, difficult situation, aggressive directiveness, predictive model

© 2018 Agnieszka Szymańska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
theory of action, parental goals, difficult situation, aggressive directiveness, predictive model