and father leave the children with grandma for a weekend to go on a trip, the participant insists that the parents change their mind and stay home or take the children with them instead). is coded in narratives in which, for example, the child tells Role reversal fighting parents that! Go to your is coded when, for Incongruent child to: “Stop room!” example, a child cleans up his room then trashes it. describes Self/fantasy confusion narratives in which the child participant confuses himself with the characters in the story and insists that he or she get a Band-Aid for the child figure, rather than have one of the story characters get it. refers to objects that are verbalized as being Destruction of objects destroyed, ruined or broken by the participant within a narrative, for example plates being thrown across the room and smashed. was coded Mother-child relationship expectations on a 5-point scale. A score of 1 reflects the parent-child relationship is almost always portrayed as dissatisfying, dangerous, and/or unpredictable, with serious and/or willful harm portrayed. A score of 5 reflects the parent-child relationship is consistently portrayed as safe, reliable, rewarding, and fulfilling, and the relationship provides opportunities for success and satisfaction. Intermediate scores were also given. Presence or absence of the above codes (except Scoring. mother-child was scored once for each narrative and then summed across relationship expectations) the ten narratives, giving a possible minimum of 0 and maximum of 10 for each code. were scored once across all 10 narratives. Mother-child relationship expectations The narratives were coded by one of the authors of the Narrative Reliability. Coding Manual (Robinson et al., 1996). Reliability with an additional coder, trained by the first, was assessed on 25% of the sample. Reliability was conducted at the level of each individual narrative rather than summing across narratives. Categorical codes were
and father leave the children with grandma for a weekend to go on a trip, the participant insists that the parents change their mind and stay home or take the children with them instead). Role reversal is coded in narratives in which, for example, the child tells fighting parents to: “Stop that! Go to your room!” Incongruent child is coded when, for example, a child cleans up his room then trashes it. Self/fantasy confusion describes narratives in which the child participant confuses himself with the characters in the story and insists that he or she get a Band-Aid for the child figure, rather than have one of the story characters get it. Destruction of objects refers to objects that are verbalized as being destroyed, ruined or broken by the participant within a narrative, for example plates being thrown across the room and smashed. Mother-child relationship expectations was coded on a 5-point scale. A score of 1 reflects the parent-child relationship is almost always portrayed as dissatisfying, dangerous, and/or unpredictable, with serious and/or willful harm portrayed. A score of 5 reflects the parent-child relationship is consistently portrayed as safe, reliable, rewarding, and fulfilling, and the relationship provides opportunities for success and satisfaction. Intermediate scores were also given. Scoring. Presence or absence of the above codes (except mother-child relationship expectations) was scored once for each narrative and then summed across the ten narratives, giving a possible minimum of 0 and maximum of 10 for each code. Mother-child relationship expectations were scored once across all 10 narratives. Reliability. The narratives were coded by one of the authors of the Narrative Coding Manual (Robinson et al., 1996). Reliability with an additional coder, trained by the first, was assessed on 25% of the sample. Reliability was conducted at the level of each individual narrative rather than summing across narratives. Categorical codes were