Nurturance or the ability to nurture is a trait that we as people believe most of us have inside of us to some degree. Nature versus nurture has been the long standing debate in regards to this trait questioning if one is better than the other or if there is really any significant difference. Nurturing as a trait is just one part of that debate with which needs to be studied in its own right to understand it fully before making that debate or any other on how nurturing an individual may or may not be. To understand it, it is a matter of analyzing factors of individuals such as the levels of nurturance among a person, how does one arrive at an individual perception of nurturing and what does it means in regards to their personality and relationships.
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Behaviorists are of the mind set that all behaviour is learned through the environment. Given that along with social learning it is understandable as to why nurturance is something that has various levels of intensity based upon how a child 's first connections and needs were met, usually with their parents, and the amount of comfort those encounters brought them. Going hand in hand with this is four different types of parenting styles, ranging from high nurturance to low, the styles are authoritative, indulgent, authoritarian and uninvolved (Wood, Zahra, Thompson, & Sebire, 2015). The different types are based on an individual parental communication style that involves both nurturance and degree of control with their child. It has been shown that 70% of our personality is developed from the way we are treated during the cognitive years of growing up (Kaplan & Bavolek, 2007). There is both a positive and negative relation with nurturance that exists in parenting styles. Harboring back to the social learning, while a young child may observe their mother respond to the aid of their crying younger sibling and therefore they learn a positive side of nurturance, the Bobo experiment showed the negative side that can develop. The Bobo experiment, performed by Bandura in 1961, had young children observe a man who was acting aggressively …show more content…
From the time of conception everyone is fitted with a different set of genes that will determine how they will develop. These genes whether hereditary or secondary come from someone’s parents but these predetermined factors have a role in tandem with the environment someone is raised in. While this has been the thought for many years it seems to have changed more recently as described by Phillips in his book From Neurons to Neighborhoods, “...it is not nature versus nurture, it is rather nature through nurture.” Adoption and twin research is the most prevalent to show that even with nurture it can be manifested negatively via nature. A study done in 1996 by Ge, Conger, Cadoret, Neiderhiser, Yates, Troughton, and Stewart had a design where kids whose biological parents had substance abuse problems or antisocial personality disorder were then adopted by non troubled parents. As these children grew up they starting taking on their biological parents problems that were manifested through several difficult behaviours such as impulsivity and low emotional self control. Due to these problems it causes the adopted parents to show them less nurturance which only worsened the tendencies they already had. Therefore nurturance is a trait that is learned rather than genetically encoded at birth. It can also be said that despite how much nurturance a child is raised around there are still some
Behaviorists are of the mind set that all behaviour is learned through the environment. Given that along with social learning it is understandable as to why nurturance is something that has various levels of intensity based upon how a child 's first connections and needs were met, usually with their parents, and the amount of comfort those encounters brought them. Going hand in hand with this is four different types of parenting styles, ranging from high nurturance to low, the styles are authoritative, indulgent, authoritarian and uninvolved (Wood, Zahra, Thompson, & Sebire, 2015). The different types are based on an individual parental communication style that involves both nurturance and degree of control with their child. It has been shown that 70% of our personality is developed from the way we are treated during the cognitive years of growing up (Kaplan & Bavolek, 2007). There is both a positive and negative relation with nurturance that exists in parenting styles. Harboring back to the social learning, while a young child may observe their mother respond to the aid of their crying younger sibling and therefore they learn a positive side of nurturance, the Bobo experiment showed the negative side that can develop. The Bobo experiment, performed by Bandura in 1961, had young children observe a man who was acting aggressively …show more content…
From the time of conception everyone is fitted with a different set of genes that will determine how they will develop. These genes whether hereditary or secondary come from someone’s parents but these predetermined factors have a role in tandem with the environment someone is raised in. While this has been the thought for many years it seems to have changed more recently as described by Phillips in his book From Neurons to Neighborhoods, “...it is not nature versus nurture, it is rather nature through nurture.” Adoption and twin research is the most prevalent to show that even with nurture it can be manifested negatively via nature. A study done in 1996 by Ge, Conger, Cadoret, Neiderhiser, Yates, Troughton, and Stewart had a design where kids whose biological parents had substance abuse problems or antisocial personality disorder were then adopted by non troubled parents. As these children grew up they starting taking on their biological parents problems that were manifested through several difficult behaviours such as impulsivity and low emotional self control. Due to these problems it causes the adopted parents to show them less nurturance which only worsened the tendencies they already had. Therefore nurturance is a trait that is learned rather than genetically encoded at birth. It can also be said that despite how much nurturance a child is raised around there are still some