This critical evaluation will argue how an individual’s gender and emotions play key roles in their development and individual differences from others. The evaluation will look at theories such as Baumrind’s typology of Parenting Style
Baumrind (1971) theorised an approach that views childhood socialisation that classifies three styles of parenting; authoritative, authoritarian and permissive. The theory is a traditional view of socialisation, where parents solely determine child outcomes. Baumrind stated that the best mode of parenting is the authoritative parenting style, whilst the authoritarian parenting style is viewed as the least beneficial mode of parenting (Smith and Moore, 2013). In line with Baumrind’s perspective, previous research …show more content…
The study aimed to use adolescents’ perspectives of their parents’ parenting styles and how adolescents see themselves functioning through this. The authors hypothesised firstly that a more authoritarian parenting style would be related to reduced psychological adjustment and conduct problems, secondly, with a more authoritarian parenting style there would be gender differences in psychosocial effects and finally, less agreement with parenting styles would be related to increased association between authoritarian parenting and psychological and conduct problems amongst the adolescent. The study used 563 Jamaican male and female adolescents across schools who gave their consent. Approval for the study was given by the local Ministry of Education and administration of the schools in Kingston. Self-administered surveys were given to participant students in group settings, which included the MAYSI-2 to assess internalised distress, a conduct problems questionnaire and an agreement with parenting questionnaire. The results of the study supported the first hypothesis, in that adolescents who saw their parents as more authoritarian were likely to report more mental health problems than adolescents who didn’t. Gender differences were also found where authoritarian …show more content…
342). Robbins, Judge and Campbell (2010) that emotions are important to rational thinking in that they provide information of how we understand the world around us. It was also said that people in different cultures experience the same emotions, however how often they experience these emotions varies. A two-part study conducted by Imada and Ellsworth (2011) used cognitive appraisal theories in a cross-cultural context to investigate cultural differences in emotion and appraisals of a situation. It was hypothesized that there would be cultural differences in experience of emotions in response to success and failure, which was tested through 125 Japanese and American undergraduates being asked to think of situations where they succeeded or failed, explaining what caused such events and report the emotions they experienced. Another prediction of the study was that if cultures appraise situations in the same way, similar emotions would be experienced. Tests for both studies were conducted in groups between five and ten people. In the first study participants were given a questionnaire to write two accounts of personal or social situations, and success or failure and then rate the causes of the incident, and how often they experienced different emotions, both on a scale
Baumrind (1971) theorised an approach that views childhood socialisation that classifies three styles of parenting; authoritative, authoritarian and permissive. The theory is a traditional view of socialisation, where parents solely determine child outcomes. Baumrind stated that the best mode of parenting is the authoritative parenting style, whilst the authoritarian parenting style is viewed as the least beneficial mode of parenting (Smith and Moore, 2013). In line with Baumrind’s perspective, previous research …show more content…
The study aimed to use adolescents’ perspectives of their parents’ parenting styles and how adolescents see themselves functioning through this. The authors hypothesised firstly that a more authoritarian parenting style would be related to reduced psychological adjustment and conduct problems, secondly, with a more authoritarian parenting style there would be gender differences in psychosocial effects and finally, less agreement with parenting styles would be related to increased association between authoritarian parenting and psychological and conduct problems amongst the adolescent. The study used 563 Jamaican male and female adolescents across schools who gave their consent. Approval for the study was given by the local Ministry of Education and administration of the schools in Kingston. Self-administered surveys were given to participant students in group settings, which included the MAYSI-2 to assess internalised distress, a conduct problems questionnaire and an agreement with parenting questionnaire. The results of the study supported the first hypothesis, in that adolescents who saw their parents as more authoritarian were likely to report more mental health problems than adolescents who didn’t. Gender differences were also found where authoritarian …show more content…
342). Robbins, Judge and Campbell (2010) that emotions are important to rational thinking in that they provide information of how we understand the world around us. It was also said that people in different cultures experience the same emotions, however how often they experience these emotions varies. A two-part study conducted by Imada and Ellsworth (2011) used cognitive appraisal theories in a cross-cultural context to investigate cultural differences in emotion and appraisals of a situation. It was hypothesized that there would be cultural differences in experience of emotions in response to success and failure, which was tested through 125 Japanese and American undergraduates being asked to think of situations where they succeeded or failed, explaining what caused such events and report the emotions they experienced. Another prediction of the study was that if cultures appraise situations in the same way, similar emotions would be experienced. Tests for both studies were conducted in groups between five and ten people. In the first study participants were given a questionnaire to write two accounts of personal or social situations, and success or failure and then rate the causes of the incident, and how often they experienced different emotions, both on a scale