How Does Socialization Affect Children's Behavior

The way parents interact with their children on a daily basis is a highly critical factor within family socialization. The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry “Contextual Risk and Behavior Problems Among Children With Substance Using Mothers: The Mediating Role of Mothers’ and Children’s Coping Strategies” by Jing Zhang and Natasha Slesnick created a study to help reinforce the idea that parents exposure to any kind of unnecessary bad intentions like drugs, depression, harm, and more can implement for the child to have more behavioral problems. The purpose for this empirical study was to see how effective single mothers coming from a low income area were able to cope on their exposure to drugs and how effective it was to the child’s psychological well being in school, home, and interaction with others. Clearly the more exposure to danger mothers have the more intentions to abuse their child because they don’t think about how awful sometimes their decisions can be. From perspective mothers go through many stages in life being a housewife, watching out for their children and dealing …show more content…
The present research showed that risk factors can lead to elevated levels of maladaptive managing in mother’s everyday lives. It proved that emotional-oriented strategies were more adaptive than task-oriented strategies and that if one individual in the family is highly affected in any potential of risk then it can be passed on to more members in the family. Contrary to their ideal hypothesis, they found that children don’t have a relationship with copying because it can be that their influenced by their own experiences dealing with stress. However, since this self report study only focused specifically on low income single mothers and a specific age range then it cannot be generalized to the population due to