PSYC 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Parenting Styles, Prosocial Behavior, Coparenting

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 355
• Professor: Robert Ley

Document Summary

--reciprocal socializaion and the family as a system. Reciprocal socializaion: process by which children & a socialize parents, just as parents socialize them. Study: conlict between parents & a (especially mothers & sons) is the most stressful during the apex of pubertal growth. Early mature a experience more conlict with their parents. A"s increasing idealisic thought comes into play in parent-a relaionships: parental changes. Involve marital saisfacion, econ burdens, career reevaluaion, ime constraints, health and body concerns: muliple developmental trajectories. Adults follow one trajectory and children and a another one. Us a pregnancy rate remains one of the highest in the developed world. No of women who postpone child-bearing unil 30s-40s increased. Couples with late-staring parenthood onset had more equal relaionships. Older fathers are warmer, communicate beter, encourage more achievement, but less likely to engage in physical play with children. Adolescents"s and emerging adults" relationships with their parents.