PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Protective Factor, Social Skills
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Overview: temperament, attachment style and parenting are all related. Temperament can affect likelihood of secure attachment. Parenting can effect likelihood of secure attachment. Parenting can affect temperament: emotional tone of the family. Parental responsiveness: methods of control in the family. Parents able to pick up child"s need better. More socially component and liked better by peers. Parents ability to synchronize with children helps them achieve better social social skill: a 2x2 parenting style model. Kid knows that parents care about them. Substantially more likely to have a more secure attachment style. Do less well in school;lower iq score. Higher suicidal tendencies: longitudinal evidence on maternal warmth as a protective factor (pettit et al. , 1997) Study: 850 junior hs students ll up surveys with one survey measuring the level of control in their families by a questionnaire (e. g, someone in my family asks if i have my homework done)