PSYC 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Stepfamily, Diana Baumrind, Parenting Styles
21 Nov 2016
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Parents as direct instructors: parents may directly teach their children skills, rules, and strategies and explicitly inform them on various issues. Parents as indirect socializers: parents provide indirect socialization through their own behaviours with and around their children. Parents as social managers: parents manage their children"s experiences and social lives, including their exposure to various people, activities, and information. Parenting styles: parenting behaviours and attributes that set the emotional climate of parent-child interactions. Diana baumrind differentiated four parenting styles: authoritative: high in demandingness and supportiveness. They set clear standards and limits for their children and are firm about enforcing them. They allow their children autonomy within limits and are attentive and responsive to their child"s needs. They respect and consider their children"s perspective: authoritarian: high in demandingness and low in responsiveness. They are unresponsive to their child"s needs and tend to enforce their demands through the exercise of parental power and use threats and punishment.
