PACD - Belsky

Question 1

What does personal psychological resources of a parent include?

Answer 1

Parental mental health, the quality of internal representations of relationships and their developmental history

Question 2

What does contextual sources of support include?

Answer 2

The social network of support from partner, relatives and friends and job conditions

Question 3

What are characteristic of a child?

Answer 3

Easy or difficult temperament

Question 4

What are child driven effects on parenting?

Answer 4

Recognition of what child brings to parenting -> child drive or bi-directional effects

Question 5

What is Belsky’s Differential Susceptibility theory?

Answer 5

Some individuals are more affected by their environmental and developmental exposures. Other individuals more fixed and less affected by their environment

Question 6

What did Bradley and Corwyn find about child temperament?

Answer 6

Easy -> similar school age externalising problems regardless of sensitivity
Difficult -> showed the lowest problems with high sensitivity and the highest externalising problems with low sensivity