PSY311H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Parenting Styles, Diana Baumrind, Longitudinal Study

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY311H1
• Professor: Stuart Kamenetsky

Document Summary

Universal attributes - types you see in parents of all cultures & mammals ex. concern for child, love, protect. Culture-specific attributes ex. organization of sleep, amount of independence given to child. Individual attributes parenting differences within a culture ex. strictness, marriage, goals (athletic vs. study) Lecture 9/10 - parenting: reciprocal influence between parents and children. Parenting style is not subjective to experimental work unethical to assign twins to diff. parenting styles. Impossible to separate diff. variables that explain child dev. outcomes - reciprocal - kids niche pick & parents genes: origin of parental behaviour, parental belief systems how they were raised, intellectual, emotional abilities etc. Parenting styles: (cid:272)hild(cid:859)s te(cid:373)pe(cid:396)a(cid:373)e(cid:374)t & (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t has a st(cid:396)o(cid:374)g i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e o(cid:374) pa(cid:396)e(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g st(cid:455)le, dimensions permissiveness/restrictiveness --- warmth/hostility - (cid:1005)95(cid:1004)(cid:859)s = either one or the other. Baumrind parenting style longitudinal study interviewed families & studied long term outcomes: authoritarian high expectations, little support. 9(cid:1004)% (cid:374)ot e(cid:374)ough, (cid:272)hild (cid:449)o(cid:374)(cid:859)t su(cid:272)(cid:272)eed (cid:449)ithout suppo(cid:396)t.