PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Protective Factor, Social Skills
16 Dec 2013
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Temperament, attachment style, and parenting are all related: temperament can affect likelihood of secure attachment, parenting can affect likelihood of secure attachment, temperament can affect parenting, parenting can affect temperament. Will you be successful in career, relationships, friendships, etc. What do we know about parenting: emotional tone of the family. Parental responsiveness: methods of control in the family. Punishments: a 2x2 parenting style model. Low income single mothers of children living in ghettos why do some children grow up fine and others don"t. Measured maternal warmth was the only predictor of whether the children will be okay. Cognitive benefits learn language faster, higher iqs, better progress through school. Socio-emotional benefits socially confident, better attachments. Control is important: kurdek & fine (1994) 850 junior high students, used questionnaire to measure level of control by parents. If they had decent amount of control had a higher sense of self- efficacy, self-esteem, social confidence. Three factors: clarity and consistency of rules.
