PSY-PC 2550 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Stepfamily, Parenting Styles

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology and Human Development
• Course: PSY-PC 2550
• Professor: Wadsworth Leigh

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Explain how girls differ from boys on how that affects the family relationships: they both tend to change the same way though they both definitely feel closer to mom than to dad. Discuss the effects of parenting styles on adolescent development and how they differ: high control, high warmth: authoritative. Good grades, independence, responsible, self-reliant, curious, high self-esteem, mature: high control, low warmth: authoritarian. Low self-esteem, less curious, more dependent on others, lack social competence, more likely to rebel, lots of secrecy: low control, high warmth: indulgent. No (cid:271)ou(cid:374)daries, (cid:862)spoiled(cid:863), (cid:374)ot respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)ility, i(cid:373)(cid:373)ature, diffi(cid:272)ulty (cid:449)ith authority and taking instruction in schools: low control, low warmth: indifferent. Negative, low self-esteem, engage in delinquent behavior, low academic success, impulsive, sometimes too mature. How does ethnicity affect parenting and adolescents: o(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es authoritaria(cid:374) pare(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e as (cid:271)ad of a(cid:374) effe(cid:272)t o(cid:374) ethnic children because their values are more based on obedience.