Parenting and Child Development - Baumrind Flashcards
What were Baumrind’s 3 parenting styles?
Authoritarian, authoritative and permissive
What is an authoritarian parenting style?
Parents who are strict about discipline and behaviour that is not one to discussion
What is an authoritative parenting style?
Parents who have ideas about behaviour and discipline that they are willing to explain and discuss with children, and at times, are willing to adapt
What is a permissive parenting style?
Parents who have relaxed ideas about behaviour and discipline
Who revised Baumrind’s parenting styles?
Maccoby and Martin who used a dimensional approach to create 4 parenting styles
What parenting styles did Maccoby and Martin create?
Authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and uninvolved.
What was found about some parenting styles in Western settings?
Authoritative -> socially popular and prosocial
Authoritarian -> socially rejected
What was a correlation between parenting styles and academic achievement?
Authoritative parenting + high parental involvement = higher academic achievement
Authoritarian parenting + high parental involvement = lower academic achievement
What is parental style, how children are perceived and socialisation like in western societies?
Authoritative, mental agents and autonomy independence
What is parental style, how children are perceived and socialisation like in non-western societies?
Authoritarian, operate natural instinct and obedience relatedness
What did Rudy and Gresuc do?
Compared correlates of authoritarian and authoritative parenting in mothers from collectivist and individualistic cultures.
What did Rudy and Gresuc find in individualistic cultures?
Authoritarianism was associated with mother’s negative feelings and cognition about child. No such associations were found in collectivist cultures
What is a limitation of Baumrind’s parenting styles?
Encompass wider range of parenting behaviours, although a strength also a limitation as it is hard to determine with specific parenting behaviours are associated with poorer child outcomes
What is a strength of Maccomby and Martin’s parenting styles?
Focus on two specific parenting dimensions (demandingness and responsively) - this allows us to examine more specific associations between each parenting dimension and child outcomes
