Family Relationships

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Important parent characteristics

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Consistency - inconsistent
Loving -rejecting
Calm- anxious
Involved - uninvolved
Close monitoring - permissive

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2 Dimensions critical parenting

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Responsiveness
Demandingness

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Responsiveness

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Love, Warm, acceptance
Show affection, understanding
Impact: positive self esteem, constructive relationships, increases perspective-taking, confident sense of identity

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Low responsiveness

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Lack sensitivity, neglectful, hostility, anxiety, problem behavior

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Demandingness

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Control, restrictiveness
Concern for rule and enforcement
Impact: Balanced level is desirable, clear expectations, progressive autonomy

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Low demandingness

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Inhibits social skill, creativity, can't make their own decision

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Baumrind parenting syles 4 prototypes

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Authoritative style
Authoritarian style
Permissive indifferent style
Permissive Indulgent style

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Authoritative style

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Hi Responsiveness
Hi Demandingness
-Respected and involved in decision
- independent, adaptable, self discipline
-Higher academics, less delinquency, positive self adjustment

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Authoritarian style

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Lo responsiveness
Hi Demandingness
-Often forceful, punitive, discipline
-kids abuse their freedom, no respect for adults
Lower spontaneity, lower self-esteem, external morality, more conformity

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Permissive indifferent style

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Lo Responsiveness
Lo Demandingness
-Uninvolved with children
-least well adjusted teen, least academic and social competence
-higher level of behavior
-Don't want to be the authority figure

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Permissive indulgent style

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Hi Responsiveness
Lo Demandingness
-Lots of love, little effort at control
-generally well adjusted
-competent socially and academically
-Moderate levels of problem behavior

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Traditional style

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Hi Responsiveness, in own way
Hi Demandingness based on cultural beliefs in parent's authority
-Doesn't describe the quality of relationship

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Traditional family structure

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Fewer 15% of teens live in traditional family structure
-2 parents, x kids, 1 wage-earner

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Divorce change families...

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Additional stress
-Children may regress, withdraw, feel responsible, depression
-Antisocial behavior, delinquency

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What's better marriage, divorce, remarriage?

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Happily non divorced
Divorced -adjustment
Remarried another adjustment
-Quality of the family matters

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Conflict matters more the family structure

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-Greatest difficulty at time of divorce
Stressors- watching conflict, changing in a parents' attention, economic strains

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Can divorce have benefits?

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-Reduced stress, conflict
-Increased attention
Teach careful relational choices

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Sleeper Effect

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Greater risks for substance use, early sexual activity
Working model of relationships is altered.. commitment, conflict, coping

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Time spend with family and friends during adolescence

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Family time decrease 28 mins per day
Friend time increase 103 mins per day

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Peer play vital role in identity development because...

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Their identities are fluid, changeable
Peer face similar challenges
-Parents cannot offer same perspective

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Conformity

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Especially in early adolescence age 10-13, decline there after...
-Clothes, interests, celebrities, music etc...

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Who conforms?

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-Lower status peers
Less conformity for those high self-esteem, competence and positive attitudes towards parents

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Friends' influence

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Teens often don't recognize own conformity...they experience it as new, bold and individualistic

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3 Components of Youth culture

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Image
Deameanor
Argot
-Needs to be clearly different from adults (establish and perserve separateness)
- continuity in basic values

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Images

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Dress, hairstyle, piercing, other aspects of appearance

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Demeanor

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Distinctive form of gesture, gait and posture

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Argot

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certain vocabulary and way of speaking

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Parents' influence vs. friend influences

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Issues around relationships adolescence turn to friends
Issues around careers and future
High levels of friend influence lack of parental attention or concern - risk gang relations

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Selective association

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Tend to choose friends similar to themselves

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Why do adolescent become friends?

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Age, gender, education, orientation, media, ethnicity they become more similar over time

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Parenting practice feedback loop

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Parenting practices - adolescent's behavior - crowd affiliation -Crowd norm & peer pressure - adolescents' behavior

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Crowds

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Large, reputation based groups of adolescents who are not all friends
-Primary function: define identity

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Clique

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Small groups of friends who know each other well, do things together
Primary function: intimacy and security
Girls: more restriction, intimate, closer age range

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Dunphy stages 4

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Stage 1: Same-sex cliques
Stage 2: Boys' and Girls' cliques spend some time together
Stage 3: Gender cliques breakdown as clique leader form romantic relationships
Stage 4: Other clique members follow suit
Stage 5: males and females pair off in more serious relationships - happens later emerging adulthood

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How do you know that someone is your best friend?

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Self disclosure, loyalty
Intimacy: sharing personal thought, feelings, stress security