PSY310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Personal Taste
Slide 26
• We see a negative effect in terms of their kids risk for being stigmatized
• Found that Canadian adolescents growing up in same-sex households are more at risk for being
harassed at school, greater risk of being verbally abused
Slide 27
• Poverty puts parents under stress
Slide 28
• Can directly influence parents' emotional state
• Hard to parent properly with all this stress
Slide 29
• When adolescents feel as though their parents are active participants in their lives, these
adolescents cope better
Slide 30
• There have been many changes
• Education
o You learned everything you needed to know form home, now school teaches you
• Religious
o Serving religious needs, family was there for that
o Now, we have institutions for that
• Medical needs
o Family members took care of you
o Now we have hospitals
• Economic
o Used to work on family farm and work within family
• Recreational
o Family was source of entertainment
• Really and truly, now the only thing that families serve is the affective one, the emotional one,
where you can fulfill your needs for love and affection
Slide 31
• The parents of teens nowadays have to save up for their children's education as well as for their
future when they get older
o They are sandwiched in between these 2 expenditures which can put pressure on their
parenting
Slide 32
• When you were younger, family is supposed to provide support for you
• As an adolescent, that changes
• During childhood, its about protection, during adolescence, its about guidance, helping you
develop skills to become an adult
Slide 34
• Reason why the mundane issues become the source of conflict is because adolescents and their
parents differ in how they view those matters of personal taste
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Document Summary
Slide 26: we see a negative effect in terms of their kids risk for being stigmatized. Found that canadian adolescents growing up in same-sex households are more at risk for being harassed at school, greater risk of being verbally abused. Slide 27: poverty puts parents under stress. Slide 28: can directly influence parents" emotional state, hard to parent properly with all this stress. Slide 29: when adolescents feel as though their parents are active participants in their lives, these adolescents cope better. Slide 32: when you were younger, family is supposed to provide support for you, as an adolescent, that changes, during childhood, its about protection, during adolescence, its about guidance, helping you develop skills to become an adult. Slide 35: rebellion is an act of defiance, typically when they rebel, they are reacting to something, it is a way of restoring our self-views.
