Cooperation and obligation in early parent-child relationships

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross A. Thompson

Abstract Tomasello's moral psychology of obligation would be developmentally deepened by greater attention to early experiences of cooperation and shared social agency between parents and infants, evolved to promote infant survival. They provide a foundation for developing understanding of the mutual obligations of close relationships that contribute (alongside peer experiences) to growing collaborative skills, fairness expectations, and fidelity to social norms.

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly K. Mathos ◽  
Ray Firth

Author(s):  
Ross A. Thompson

Attachment theory has long been at the forefront of research efforts to understand the origins and enduring impact of early parent–child relationships. It has also expanded into a theory of lifespan implications with relevance to problems in developmental psychopathology, early intervention, and mental representation. This review of the expanding research literature on attachment is organized around eight questions: (a) To whom do attachments develop? (b) What are the biological foundations of attachment? (c) How does culture influence attachment and its consequences? (d) What contributes to attachments becoming secure or insecure? (e) How does attachment security change over time? (f) What are the later outcomes of secure or insecure attachments? (g) How does attachment influence thinking and social representations? (h) What are the clinical implications of attachment research? The answers to these questions summarize what has been learned about the importance of early parent–child relationships and identify future research priorities.


2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 101057
Author(s):  
Catherine Cimon-Paquet ◽  
Émilie Tétreault ◽  
Annie Bernier

Author(s):  
Dan Kelly ◽  
Nicolae Morar

This chapter examines the set of relations that hold between food and cuisine, eating and dining, and norms, social roles, and identities, in a way that continues to be informed by current work in empirical moral psychology. It unpacks the notion of a social role in terms of social norms, the often unwritten rules that regulate behavior and social interactions, and describes recent empirical work that illuminates the power and psychological underpinning of norm-based cognition, with an emphasis on how disgust animates many food norms. Finally, it discusses the ethical implications of this perspective for assessing food norms and considers how attempts to alter a person’s eating habits can run up against deep and distinctive forms of psychological resistance when they are also attempts to change who she is.


2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
Nandy Agustin Syakarofath ◽  
Subandi Subandi

Disruptive behavior according to DSM 5 is a pattern of behavior that violates the rights of others, aggression, property destruction and or that leads individuals to experience significant conflicts with violations of social norms or authority figures. This study aims to examine the significance of two factors derived from the family towards the emergence of disruptive behavior that are the family expressed emotion and perceived of parentchild relationships. There are 237 teenagers was participated in this study (aged 15-18 years old) who lived with their parent obtained from the scaling of SDQ, LEE and PACQ. The result of the regression indicated the two predictors explained 5,3% of variance (adjusted R2 = .053, F(3.235) = .013, p<.05). The implications of this study are the family expressed emotion and perceived of parent-child relationships are two factors that can contributed to the emergence of disruptive behavior symptoms in adolescent, although if analyzed separately perceived of parent-child relationships towards a mother has no effect.  


1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Howe

Problematic behaviour in adopted teenage children often stems from their very early experiences. In examining the evolution of the relationship between parents and their adopted children from adolescence to early adulthood David Howe identifies three types of adoption, each associated with a distinct pattern of pre-placement care. On the basis of this classification the quality of parent-child relationships is explored at two key stages: when the adopted person is 16 and over 23. In addition, the adopters interviewed in Howe's study provided their own long-term views of the adoption process when looking back. Those who managed to survive the most stressful years often reported much more relaxed, reciprocal relationships with their grown-up children. But they also underlined the importance of expert advice and support to help see them through the worst times. Conclusion


Author(s):  
Abraham A. Singer

The chapter subjects the Chicago school to critique. It starts by reviewing the different views of Coasian thought that were reviewed in Part I. This chapter offers a third approach, which brings Coase’s overlooked views about moral psychology to bear on the question of the corporation. In this view, it is the cultivation of cooperative social norms, not the contractual allocation of governing rights, that allows firms to economize on market failures. This idea is referred to as “norm-governed productivity.” According to this view, firms are not “privately owned markets,” nor do they merely alter people’s decision-making through coercion or incentives; instead, firms work by altering preferences in order to foster cooperative relationships. This conception of corporate efficiency invites the moral question as to whether the relationships being cultivated are good or bad, a question that cannot be short-circuited by the economist’s recourse to choice and preference.


2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 1459-1482 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAN GUO ◽  
LING XU ◽  
JINYU LIU ◽  
WEIYU MAO ◽  
IRIS CHI

ABSTRACTImmigration disrupts the bonding process in families. Maintaining close relationships with adult children can be an important protective factor for older immigrants' health and wellbeing. Quantitative research explaining such close relationships is rare. This study examined factors associated with close parent–child relationships in a purposive sample of 236 older Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles who provided information regarding 365 children. Two-level regression models were estimated to investigate factors contributing to cohesive parent–child relationships among these older adults. The findings showed that co-residence, a characteristic that distinguishes immigrant families from most non-immigrant families, was associated with lower parent–child relationship quality. Frequent contact was associated with closer relationships. While receiving instrumental and monetary support from children was associated with favourable ratings of relationships with children, providing such support to children was not related to parents' assessment of relationship quality. Parental perceptions of children being respectful was also associated with better relationship quality ratings. Overall, the findings demonstrate how family-related changes in the immigration context shape parent–child relationships in later life. Implications for future research and practice are provided.


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