PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Stress Management, Authoritarianism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

Baumrind"s research with preschoolers and parents: authoritarian unresponsive + controlling/demanding; no, authoritative accepting + controlling/demanding; warmth + warmth + limits limits, permissive accepting/responsive + un-controlling/ undemanding. Maccoby and martin (1983) added uninvolved unresponsive + un- controlling/undemanding: most damaging style of parenting, children rejected or parents are so overwhelmed, low warmth, children don"t feel noticed (main difference between permissive and uninvolved) Behavioral control or psychological control: behavioral control leads to better outcomes control behavior but doing it by focusing on emotion (shame + Shift emphasis from identity and make it about what they do. Psychological control is more damaging still trying to guilt) (cid:498)(ow dare you do that? (cid:499) (cid:523)psychological control(cid:524) vs. (cid:498)that was not a good choice(cid:499) (cid:523)behavioral control(cid:524) We are not defined by our mistakes. Mistakes are essential that is how we learn + develop morals without losing any sense of worth or value. Values + beliefs fostered with behavioral control.