approach to the task and to verbally encourage their children, such as stating that copies were adequateand that no negative consequences would follow from the task, and to encourage their children to complete the task without assistance. The third phase was designed to determine any impact of parental rearing condition on children (post-parental rearing manipulation). The task was video-recorded,with each participant being given a random letter identification used for later coding.Procedure for coding and reliability testing. All recorded segments (pre- and post-experimental manipulations)used for coding purposes were de-identified with random letter codes and randomized using an online randomizer (http://www.randomizer.org) before they were coded by a research assistant with postgraduate qualifications in psychology who was unaware of children’s diagnostic status, the experimental condition, or the study hypotheses. A random sample of these video segments(25%) was reliability-coded by a second research assistant who was also unaware of the experimental condition or hypotheses. Each coder was given the relevant coding manual and trained to criterion on the coding system using two recorded samples. Inter-rater reliability analysis using the kappa statistic was performed to determine consistency among raters on categorical variables. Categorical variables were investigated using kappa statistics, whereas continuous variables were examined using