Lecture 13 - The Family As A Developmental Context: Parenting

Question 1

(reading):

Siegler, R., Saffran, J., DeLoache, J., Gershoff, E. T. & Eisenberg, N. (2017). How Children Develop. Chapter 12.

Conger, R.D et al., (1994). Economic stress, coercive family process, and developmental problems of adolescents. Child Development, 65, 541-561.

Answer 1

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Question 2

(lecture summary):

The main focus of this lecture is to examine a typology of parenting behaviour (Baumrind) and contrast it with process-oriented accounts of parenting effects on children. This lecture also introduces the concept of the ‘active child’ with regard to the child’s willingness to be socialised by parents. Finally, we will consider how social environments (e.g., households, government policy, economic factors, neighbourhoods, etc.) exert effects on children indirectly via the impact on parents, but this should not rule out consideration of other mechanisms of effect.

• Parenting is part of a system of influences on children.
• May be most proximal to understanding variation in child adjustment
• Two theoretical perspectives: parenting as a typology and parenting as a process
• Placing parenting in context
  > e.g. economic pressure.

Answer 2

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Question 3

(lecture study question):

How can psychologist’s best capture the role of the wider social environment in studies of child development?

Evaluate Diana Baumrind’s typology of parenting style in accounting for family socialisation effects on children’s development.

Describe and discuss attempts to explain why, when and how parents’ behaviour is associated with children’s psychological well-being.

Answer 3

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Question 4

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Define ‘family’.

Answer 4

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See slide 3

Question 5

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Read slide 5

Answer 5

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Question 6

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Read slide 6-7

Answer 6

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Question 7

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What are the four main parenting styles, as established by the research of Diana Baumrind (1973) and Maccoby and Martin (1983)?

Answer 7

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• Authoritative
• Authoritarian
• Permissive
• Uninvolved

Question 8

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Describe authoritative parenting.

Answer 8

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See slide 10

Question 9

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Describe authoritarian parenting.

Answer 9

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See slide 11

Question 10

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Describe permissive parenting.

Answer 10

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See slide 12

Question 11

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Describe uninvolved parenting.

Answer 11

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See slide 13

Question 12

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Describe the Parenting Style as Context by Darling and Steinberg, (1993).

Answer 12

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See slide 15-18

Question 13

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Read slide 19-25

Answer 13

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