PSY 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Family Therapy, Parenting Styles, Diana Baumrind
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Parenting: socialization: how kids acquire beliefs, values, behaviors that are considered appropriate by culture/subculture. Family: 2/more people related by birth, marriage, adoption, choice who have emotional ties, responsibilities to each other: family systems theory: influence between parents, kids is bidirectional. Families are complex social systems all subsystems must be understood (eg. , sibling, marital, triad relationships, etc. ) Important aspects of parenting *chart: baumrind: 3 parenting styles - based on observation, maccoby & martin: revised existing styles, added 2 aspects 4 styles. Acceptance/responsiveness: how responsive, affectionate, warm a parent is towards kid. Demandingness/control: how restrictive (set reasonable boundaries), demanding parents are. Authoritative: high acceptance, high control flexible, democratic, warm, accepting provide guidance, control. Best outcomes higher self-esteem, achievement, etc. Authoritarian: low acceptance, high control restrictive, set rules, expect obedience, power-asserting parents. Permissive: high acceptance, low control lax, have few demands, rarely attempt to control kids" behavior. Kids tend to get into early sexual behavior, drug use.
