Parenting Styles, Attachment & Developmental Outcomes

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Vocabulary flashcards covering attachment types, major parenting styles, their dimensional framework, cultural considerations, and practical implications.

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Secure Attachment (Type B) mother

Bond formed when caregivers are consistently warm, sensitive and responsive, leading children to feel safe and confidently explore their environment.

  • Emotionally available

  • Sensitive, supportive

  • Consistent in responsiveness across all contexts.

 

Impact on child:

  • Feels safe → confidently explores environment.

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Insecure-Avoidant Attachment (Type A) mother

Pattern that develops with emotionally distant or rejecting caregiving;

children appear indifferent, suppress distress and avoid seeking comfort.

  • Slow to respond when child is distressed.

 

Child presentation:

  • Appears uncaring/ indifferent;

  •  suppresses need expression.

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Insecure-Anxious / Ambivalent Attachment (Type C) mother

Attachment style arising from inconsistent caregiver responsiveness;

children display high anxiety,

intense protest on separation and

difficulty calming.

  • Inconsistent responsiveness → unpredictability for infant.

  • Can be strict in some contexts, indulgent in others.

 

Example given:

  • Mother allows child to jump on lounge at home, but smacks child for jumping on a seat in public transport.

 

Child presentation:

  • High anxiety; intense protest when caregiver leaves, difficulty calming.

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Disorganised Attachment

Confused, contradictory child behaviour linked to unpredictable, frightening or abusive caregiving,

often involving neglect or substance misuse.

➢Unpredictable, frightened or frightening

 

  • Often linked with abuse, neglect, or parental substance misuse (drug/alcohol).

 

Child presentation:

  • Confused, contradictory behaviours; may freeze, approach then avoid.

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Authoritative Parenting

High responsiveness and high demandingness; parents set clear rules yet respect the child’s views, using reasoning and balanced warmth with firmness.

  • Responding to each others’ needs= reciprocal

  • Can assert authority but can also be kind / compassionate

  • Show respect for child’s opinion

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Authoritarian Parenting

Low responsiveness and high demandingness; emphasis on obedience,

one-way power assertion (“because I said so”) with limited warmth or dialogue.

  • Use of power balance between him and child & dominance to control child

  • Obedience and respect for authority

  • Demand a lot from child but don’t give much back

  • Low responsiveness; high demandingness.

  • Emphasises obedience; limited verbal exchange.

  • “Because I said so” ethos; little warmth.

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Indulgent (Permissive) Parenting

High responsiveness and low demandingness;

parents are overly lenient,

satisfy the child’s desires,

enforce few rules and

act more like friends.

  • Child the boss

  • No control on their child, child make own decisions whenever

  • Parents meet demands of child -> permissive parents

Core: Child-centred dominance.

Traits:

  • High responsiveness; low demandingness.

  • Child’s desires routinely satisfied;.

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Uninvolved (Neglectful) Parenting Maccoby and Martin

  • Own needs above child’s

  • Neglectful

  • Low responsiveness & low demandingness.

  • Parent disengaged; minimal interaction or support.

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Responsiveness (Warmth)

Dimension of parenting reflecting emotional availability, support and sensitivity to a child’s needs.

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Demandingness (Control)

Parenting dimension involving expectations, rule-setting and consistent discipline to guide behaviour.

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Baumrind’s Three Styles (1967)

Authoritative, Authoritarian and Indulgent categories proposed to explain how parental behaviour affects child development.

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Maccoby & Martin Expansion (1983)

Model that added the Uninvolved style and mapped all four styles onto the orthogonal dimensions of responsiveness and demandingness.

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Consistency & Emotional Availability

Key caregiving qualities shown to foster secure attachment; unpredictability undermines attachment security.

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Parenting Interventions

Programs aimed at increasing caregiver warmth and setting reasonable expectations, often combined with social supports (e.g., substance-abuse treatment).

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Cultural Influence on Parenting

Recognition that norms (e.g., obedience vs autonomy) shape preferred styles, yet high physical discipline across cultures is linked to greater child aggression and anxiety.

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Developmental outcomes authoritive

High academic performance

High social competence

Low problem behaviours

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developmental outcomes Authoritarian

High obedience / conformity

High stress

Low problem behaviour

Low self esteem

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Developmental outcomes indulgent

High self confidence

High school misconduct due to no rules

High substance abuse

Low self control

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Developmentally outcome uninvolved

High social problems

Low social competence

Low school and work effort

Low self esteem

Aggressive

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Guidance approach To raise children

arents help child to manage emotions corporate with others think of effects of their behaviour on others

 

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Role if culture in parenting

  • culture place a huge role in which parenting ] style is more effective/appropriate

  • However, all countries higher use of physical discipline of children was associated with more aggression and anxiety

  • Are you cultural societies usually value obedience more than autonomy or independence?

  • Chinese mothers were more psychologically controlling than American