Parenting Styles and Attachment

Flashcards on Parenting Styles and Attachment based on lecture notes.

Authoritarian Parenting

A parenting style characterized by strict rules, high demands, and a lack of responsiveness to children's needs or explanations.

Authoritative Parenting

A democratic parenting style that establishes rules and guidelines, is responsive to children, and uses nurturing and forgiving discipline.

Permissive Parenting

Also known as indulgent parenting, is characterized by few demands, low expectations, and a nurturing, communicative approach, often resembling a friend more than a parent.

Uninvolved Parenting

A parenting style marked by few demands, low responsiveness, little communication, and detachment from the child's life. In extreme cases, it may involve rejection or neglect.

Secure Attachment

Attachment style where children feel confident that the attachment figure will be available to meet their needs, using them as a safe base to explore and seeking them in times of distress.

Insecure Ambivalent Attachment

Attachment style where children exhibit clingy and dependent behavior but reject the attachment figure during interaction, failing to develop feelings of security.

Insecure Avoidant Attachment

Attachment style where children are independent of the attachment figure, both physically and emotionally, and do not seek contact when distressed, often due to a caregiver who is insensitive and rejecting.

Diana Baumrind

Psychologist known for her research on parenting styles, identifying Authoritarian, Authoritative, and Permissive styles.

Mary Ainsworth

Psychologist known for her work on attachment styles, identifying Secure, Insecure Ambivalent, and Insecure Avoidant attachment styles.