Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Parenting Styles, Parenting, Sexual Orientation

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2700A/B
• Professor: Laura Brunton

Document Summary

Identity: defining who you are, what you value, and your direction in life, commitments to vocation, relationships, sexual orientation, ethnic group, ideals, exploration, resolution of identity crisis . Role confusion: lack of direction and self-definition, earlier psychological conflicts not resolved, society restricts choices, unprepared for challenges of adulthood. Unifies separate traits into more abstract descriptors. Gradually combines traits into organized system: qualifiers, integrating principles. Continues to gain new dimensions: close friendship, romantic appeal, job competence. Generally rises, but drops temporarily at school transitions. Parenting style affects quality and stability of self-esteem. Preconventional level: stage 1: punishment and obedience, stage 2: instrumental purpose. Conventional level: stage 3: good boy-good girl (morality of interpersonal cooperation), stage 4: social-order-maintaining. Postconventional or principle level: stage 5: social contract, stage 6: universal ethical principle. Stages 3 and 4 reflect morally mature reasoning. In real life, people often reason below actual capacity. Kohlberg: emphasis on rights and justice orientation. Gilligan: emphasis on ethic of care orientation.