Chapter 12: Family influences Flashcards

Question

family interactions: mother

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More time spent with children Physical care and emotional support Self-reported overprotection and over- praising

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Playing with children (including physical/ rough- and-tumble) Coaching child’s sports teams Less stressful parts of child rearing

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Sources of support, play/instruction, security, assistance, and caregiving AND ALSO rivals and sources of conflict Older sibling = parental role sometimes, role model Impacts on conflict- if the parents are egging on some sort of rivalry Close in age creates a more friend dynamic Age gaps are becoming bigger with the increase of step/blended families Siblings also have closer, more positive relationships with each other if their parents treat them similarly. If parents favour one child over another, the sibling relationship may suffer Rivalry and conflict between siblings tend to be higher in divorced families and in remarried families than in non-divorced families, even between biological siblings.

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the constellation of parenting behaviours and attitudes that set the emotional climate of parent–child interactions. May fluctuate depending on the situation Not a set, stable, constant thing Combinations of warmth and control create 4 possible parenting styles

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Responsiveness ---Appropriately responding to child’s needs in a timely fashion

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Demandingness ---Expectation that child will follow parent’s rules ---Children have less of a say ---Parent doesn’t care what child wants How parent is monitoring child’s behaviour through rules

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authoritarian authoritative uninvolved permissive

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Low warmth ---Non responding to child’s needs ---Cold ---detached High control ---Lots of rules, limitations, and expectations ---Discipline and punishment ---No wiggle room ---Physical discipline is most commonly seen here “You need to share the toy because i said so” Children of authoritarian parents tend to be relatively low in social and academic competence, unhappy and unfriendly, and low in self-confidence, with boys being more negatively affected than girls in early childhood

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High warmth ---Attentive parents ---Open to communication High control ---Not much physical discipline ---Have rules and structure to regulate behaviour Ideal parenting style “Share the toy because it’s important to take turns” children of authoritative parents tend to be competent, self-assured, and popular with peers. They are also able to behave in accordance with adults’ expectations and are low in antisocial behaviour.

Answer 10

Low warmth ---Emotionally disengaged, neglectful ---Don’t care what child is doing ---Parent focused on their own needs, rather than their child’s Low control ---Won’t set rules or monitor child’s behaviour “I don’t care if you share the toy” Children who have uninvolved parents tend to have disturbed attachment relationships when they are infants or toddlers and to have problems with peer relationships as older children In adolescence, they tend to exhibit a wide range of problems, from antisocial behaviour and low academic competence to internalizing problems, substance abuse, and risky or promiscuous sexual behaviour

Answer 11

High warmth ---Responsive to child’s needs Low control ---Overly lenient ---Child runs house “Share the toy only if you feel like it” The children of permissive parents tend to be impulsive, low in self-regulation, high in externalizing problems, and low in school achievement

Answer 12

Behaviour (or lack of) that results in physical and or/ emotional harm to the child five types

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physical emotional sexual exposure to family/ interpartner violence neglect

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involves a pattern of behaviour in which a caregiver demeans, rejects, repeatedly criticizes, or withholds love from a child or otherwise communicates to a child that the child is worthless, unloved, or unwanted.

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is the application of unreasonable force to a child (e.g., harsh physical discipline, use of restraints, hitting).

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includes sexual acts or sexual exploitation involving children; it includes both inappropriate touching of a child and exposure to sexual content such as pornography Least common

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most common

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refers to the failure of a caregiver to provide the physical and psychological necessities of life to a child (e.g., failure to supervise, medical neglect).

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Child is experiencing multiple forms of maltreatment

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parents’ lack of knowledge about their children’s needs and abilities strong negative reaction to stress family’s low income inadequate housing and material resources social isolation Parents with drug or alcohol dependence

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Physical pain or injury Hunger Cold Other physical discomfort Fear Anxiety disorganized/disoriented attachment Victims of physical violence show increased aggressive behaviour