PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Diana Baumrind, Parenting Styles

• School: Pace University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: Sporin

Document Summary

Intimacy: giving & receiving love in close, long-term relationships. Generativity: guiding development of next generation, often by becoming parents/mentors: what makes a good parent, some parents are strict. Other parents are lax: some parents spend a lot of time w/ their kids. Others parents are often too busy to do so: some parents are warm & affectionate. Adolescent mothers are more likely to use drugs & alcohol during pregnancies: they tend to have poor parenting skills, tend to provide insufficient support for child. In comparison to children of older mother, babies of adolescent mothers have higher rates of: Baumrind (1996): as child grows, parents take on 1 of 4 types of parenting styles, parental behaviors that determine nature of parent-child interactions, styles depend on whether parent is: Having high expectations for behavior & control. Determined by degree of warmth & attention provided.