PSY210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Parenting Styles, Asteroid Family
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How well a family ful lls its functions depends on its family dynamics: all the family members in uence one another, and the nature of their interactions shapes children"s development. Parents socialize their children"s development through direct instruction; through their modelling of skills, attitudes, and behaviour; and through their managing of children"s experiences and social lives. Researchers have identi ed several types of parenting styles related to the dimensions of warmth and control. Authoritative parents are supportive and relatively high in control; their children tend to be socially and academically competent. Authoritarian parents are low in warmth and high in control; their children tend to be relatively low in social and academic competence, unhappy, and low in self- con dence. Permissive parents are responsive to their children"s needs and wishes and low on control; their children tend to be low in self-control and in school achievement.
