Lecture 8 Flashcards
Self-fulfilling prophecy in parenting
The more parents believe in the stereotype of adolescents as being difficult, the more they expect their child to conform to it, and the worse their relationship will become.
Shaping values and beliefs
Parents and their children often have the same beliefs, as they share socioeconomic, regional and cultural background. But there is a generational gap.
Family systems theory
An organized whole consisting of interrelated parts that influence each other. Family relationships change most dramatically when individual family members or the family’s circumstances change, this is because at that moment the family’s equilibrium is upset.
Midlife crisis
When the children reach adolescence, a lot of parents reach a midlife crisis, this can alter the relationship.
Sandwich generation
Parents are in between their adolescent children and their ageing parents.
Familism
Many immigrant families place high value on placing the needs of one’s family above the needs of the individual.
Generational dissonance
The different expectations between immigrant parents and teenagers are a significant source of stress for adolescents and parents. Even more when the teenager adopts the values of the new country.
Parental responsiveness
The degree in which the parent responds to the child’s needs in an acceptive, supportive manner
Parental demandingness
The extent to which the parent expects and demands mature, responsible behaviour
Shared environmental influences
Influences are non-genetic influences that make individuals living in the same family similar to each other in personality and behaviour
Non-shared environmental influences
Influences are non-genetic influences in individual’s lives that make them different from the people they live with
Diathesis-stress model
A perspective on psychological disorders that posits that problems are the result of an interaction between a pre-existing condition (the diathesis) and exposure to stress in the environment
Differential susceptibility theory
Whereas the diathesis-stress model suggests that groups are likely to do worse in a negative environment, this theory suggests a group sensitive to both positive and negative environments
Family stress model
Shows how poverty and economic pressure affects the quality of interparental relationships, which in turn impacts on child outcomes.
Independence
The individual’s capacity to behave on their own
