PSYC 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Filial Piety, Sociosexual Orientation, Parenting Styles
10 Mar 2015
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More recent is cross-cultural extensions of this literature. What are coercive home environments? predict aggressive, poorly adjusted children. Family members irritate one another and use aggressive tactics as a method of coping. Example car: turn key and get seatbelt alarm, put in seatbelt get rid of sound. More recent look at parenting styles: cross-cultural research. Conclusion of several decades of parenting research: Inconsistent and harsh parenting, excessive levels of control, low parental monitoring and parent child conflict lead to problems. Authoritarian value of obedience, respect for authority, higher behaviour expectations, child is not to question or challenge parental decisions. Confucian ethics place emphasis on sovereign and subject (hierarchical) relations: father-son, older-younger brother, husband-wife. The subordinate is to respect and display loyalty, the dominant is expected to teach and discipline. Collective culture behaving in ways the bring honour and not disgrace to the family name. Guan involves the continuous monitoring and correcting of child"s behaviour (training)
