Child abuse and unrealistic expectations: Further validation of the Parent Opinion Questionnaire.

Compared the unrealistic expectations of 16 child abusing mothers with 14 mothers whose partners perpetrated the abuse in a 2nd validation study of the Parent Opinion Questionnaire (POQ). This comparison provided a more stringent test of the POQ's validity in that it controlled for nonspecific factors associated with being in a family identified for child maltreatment. Significantly greater unrealistic expectations of child behavior were found for abusing Ss than for control Ss. Analysis showed that the POQ correctly classified 83% of the Ss. (6 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)