Family influences on psychological development
Belsky, Jay (2008) Family influences on psychological development. Psychiatry 7 (7), pp. 282-285. ISSN 1476-1793.
Abstract
Early in life, infants develop attachment relationships that contribute to their wellbeing and are shaped by the sensitivity of their parent/caregiver. Sensitive-responsive parenting further predicts higher levels of cognitive and social functioning through the early and middle-childhood years. Parental knowledge of a child’s friends and awareness of how the child spends his/her time become particularly important during the adolescent years. Hostility, harsh discipline and coercive control undermine wellbeing throughout childhood. Some evidence indicates that effects of parenting vary by family race-ethnicity and by child emotional and genetic characteristics. Also contributing to children’s development is the quality of marital relations and the stability of family life.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | attachment security, child psychiatry, coercive control, gene–environment interaction, marital quality |
| School: | Birkbeck Schools and Departments > School of Science > Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2011 14:24 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2013 12:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2302 |
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