Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
Parenting Style and its Effect on Children's Psychological Adjustment: Authoritarian vs. Authoritative Parenting
Recent decades have seen a resurgence of interest in identifying the external and internal factors that place children at risk for behavioral problems. Adjustment disorders have particularly been on the limelight, with recent statistics showing that approximately one-third of adolescents suffer from some form of adjustment disorder, compared to only 10% of the adult population (Schonbeck, 2006). Simply stated, an adjustment disorder is a mental-related illness resulting from one's failure to adjust accordingly to identifiable stressors in their external environment. In children, such stressors could be anything from being forced to move into a new neighborhood to being a victim of crime or losing a close family member. The resultant symptoms could be anything from social withdrawal, academic problems, school behavior problems, anxiety and depression.
The ecological systems theory suggests that a child's behavioral development is influenced by multiple interacting factors including school, culture, neighborhood, and family (Cohen, 2006). These factors interact to determine a child's behavioral characteristics, including how they respond to unforeseen stressors in their developmental environment (Cohen, 2006). Family is the primary influencer of behavioral development,...
Towards this end, everyone accepts the important role played by parenting in the family unit in a child's developmental process.
As a matter of fact, numerous studies have been conducted to explore the role played by parenting in the developmental system. However, most of these have focused on the role of parenting on children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors, creating a huge knowledge dearth in other behavioral aspects such as psychological adjustment. The researcher reckons that the lack of knowledge in this area has made effective policy-development a challenge, and is partly to blame for the high prevalence of adjustment disorders among children and adolescents.
Building on existing literature, therefore, the proposed study will seek to examine the effect of parenting style on a child's psychological adjustment. To increase objectivity, the research will focus on two parenting styles - authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles -- and will compare the two, with a view of determining which one yields the best outcomes in terms of helping children cope with unforeseen stressors in their external environment. Studies have yielded mixed results on the effectiveness of…
References
Cohen, D.J. (2006). Developmental Psychopathology: Theory and Method (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Schonbeck, J. (2006). Adjustment Disorders. Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence. Retrieved July 7, 2015 from http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Adjustment_disorders.aspx
Parenting Styles The Effects of Parenting Styles on Students Achievement in Special Education Parents develop parenting styles that largely determine the type of parent-child relationship and the levels of development of children in various skills and competencies. Within this discipline, the family context is conceived as a system that includes ways of mutual influence, direct and indirect, between its members. Parenting styles and family interaction patterns influence virtually in all spheres of
parenting styles in the Jewish community differentially correlate with alcohol use of Jewish College Freshmen males (18-26)? Underage and college drinking is an increasing problem for youth. This later phase of adolescence is one where pressure and a desire to act as an independent individual are overwhelming, and can convince college students to opt toward excessive alcohol usage (Bahr & Hoffman, 2012; Changalwa et al., 2012; Peckham & Lopez, 2007).
Parenting Style and Culture Affects Child Development We all started learning from our parents. Thus, chances are what the parents show and teach to their child are what the child will develop during his growth. Because of this, it is important that proper parenting must be carried to a child during his development. Researches and studies show that the style and culture of parenting influences child development. However, studies also show
Parenting Styles There are a few different parenting styles, named by Matsumoto as authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved, and authoritative. Generally, uninvolved parents are those who are too involved in their own lives to respond appropriately to their children, while permissive parents are warm and nurturing but allow their children to regulate their own lives. Authoritative parents are those that are firm, fair and reasonable. Authoritarian parents, by contrast, are those who demand
Parenting Styles and their Effect on Children Behavior Different Parenting Styles This research paper is based on Baumrind's theory of parenting and covers the impact and consequences of different parenting styles on children's development extensively. Four parenting styles named authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved are discussed in detail. This paper also discusses parenting style of Canada, Japan and China in contrast with Baumrind's theory of parenting. All the impacts and influences
Figure 1 portrays three of the scenes 20/20 presented March 15, 2010. Figure 1: Heather, Rachel, and Unnamed Girl in 20/20 Program (adapted from Stossel, 2010). Statement of the Problem For any individual, the death of a family member, friend, parent or sibling may often be overwhelming. For adolescents, the death of person close to them may prove much more traumatic as it can disrupt adolescent development. Diana Mahoney (2008), with the