Parenting Styles

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Parenting Styles

• Parenting and Personality

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What is Parenting Style?

• Diana Baumrind concept of parenting style
• Looks at normal variations in parenting
• Not deviant parenting (neglectful or abusive)
• Normal parenting revolves around issues of
  control
• Primary role of parents
• Influence
• Teach
• Control children

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Two Elements

• Parental responsiveness
• warmth or supportiveness
• extent which parents intentionally foster
  individuality, self-regulation, and
  self-assertion
• Versus
• Parental demandingness
• behavior control
• refers to integration into the family by
  maturity, supervision, disciplinary efforts and
  willingness to confront the child

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Indulgent Parents

• Permissive or non-directive
• Nontraditional and lenient
• Do not require mature behavior
• Allow considerable self-regulation
• Avoid confrontation
• Democratic parents

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Authoritarian Parents

• Highly demanding and directive
• Obedience and status oriented
• Expect their orders to be obeyed without question
• Well ordered, structured environments with
  clearly stated rules
• Psychological control

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Authoritative Parents

• Demanding and responsive
• Assertive but not intrusive or restrictive
• Discipline is supportive rather than punitive
• Children are assertive and self-regulatory

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Uninvolved Parents

• Low in responsiveness and demandingness
• Extreme casesrejecting and neglectful parents

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Consequences on Children

• Can predict social competence, academic
  performance, psychosocial development, and
  problem behavior
• Authoritativemore socially competent
• Uninvolvedperform poorly in all areas

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Consequences on Children

• Authoritarianperform moderately well in school
  and uninvolved in problem behavior poorer social
  skills, lower self-esteem and higher levels of
  depression
• Indulgentmore likely involvement in problem
  behavior and perform less well in school may
  have higher self-esteem, better social skills,
  and lower levels of depression

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Variances Occur

• Authoritative is most common among intact
  middle-class European American families
• Gender
• Demandingness is less critical to girls than
  boys well being
• Ethnicity
• Academic performance and authoritative
• Only connected in European Americans and slightly
  in Hispanic Americans