DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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Question
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parenting styles seem to be correlated with later social competence
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parenting styles seem to have no impact on later social competence
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children of authoritarian parents tend to have greater social skill and self esteem.
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parents who use a permissive style raise children with high self esteem and self reliance.
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parenting styles cause certain childhood outcomes that can be predicted.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Diana Baumrind’s Parenting Styles Theory Baumrind’s theory posits that there is a close relationship between the type of parenting style and children’s behavior. Different parenting styles can lead to different child development and child outcomes.
Detailed explanation-2: -What Baumrind found to be the more ideal parenting style, leading to more positive cognitive, social, and emotional development in children and adolescents, was authoritative parenting-a combination of warmth and responsiveness with structure, limit-setting, and challenges to children to do their best.
Detailed explanation-3: -Across cultures, authoritative parenting is consistently linked with better child outcomes. In a recent, international meta-analysis of 428 published studies, researchers found that authoritative parenting is associated with at least one positive outcome in every region of the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -Research has generally linked authoritative parenting, where parents balance demandingness and responsiveness, with higher social competencies in children.