Parenting and Family

2019 ◽  
pp. 88-127
Author(s):  
Scott A. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Parental Beliefs ◽  
Older Parents ◽  
Value Of Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
Children’S Development ◽  
Parent Child

The parental beliefs that affect children’s development are not limited to beliefs about children; they also include what parents believe about themselves as parents and what they believe about the family as a unit. The first half of this chapter addresses beliefs about parenting of several sorts: knowledge of parenting processes, feelings of self-efficacy as a parent, and attributions for parenting outcomes. Also discussed are effects of the transition to parenthood on how parents think. The second half of the chapter is directed to beliefs about the family. It begins with two topics that are often the source of parent–child conflicts: household responsibilities and decision-making and autonomy. The chapter concludes with beliefs about the value of children, including the beliefs of older parents whose children have grown.

scholarly journals Development and validation of the Family Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie T. Nolan ◽  
Mark T. Hughes ◽  
Joan Kub ◽  
Peter B. Terry ◽  
Alan Astrow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Loved One ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Decision ◽  
Patient Scenario ◽  
Family Decision Making ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

AbstractObjective:Several studies have reported high levels of distress in family members who have made health care decisions for loved ones at the end of life. A method is needed to assess the readiness of family members to take on this important role. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop and validate a scale to measure family member confidence in making decisions with (conscious patient scenario) and for (unconscious patient scenario) a terminally ill loved one.Methods:On the basis of a survey of family members of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) enriched by in-depth interviews guided by Self-Efficacy Theory, we developed six themes within family decision making self-efficacy. We then created items reflecting these themes that were refined by a panel of end-of-life research experts. With 30 family members of patients in an outpatient ALS and a pancreatic cancer clinic, we tested the tool for internal consistency using Cronbach's alpha and for consistency from one administration to another using the test–retest reliability assessment in a subset of 10 family members. Items with item to total scale score correlations of less than .40 were eliminated.Results:A 26-item scale with two 13-item scenarios resulted, measuring family self-efficacy in decision making for a conscious or unconscious patient with a Cronbach's alphas of .91 and .95, respectively. Test–retest reliability was r = .96, p = .002 in the conscious senario and r = .92, p = .009 in the unconscious scenario.Significance of results:The Family Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale is valid, reliable, and easily completed in the clinic setting. It may be used in research and clinical care to assess the confidence of family members in their ability to make decisions with or for a terminally ill loved one.

Parents of the Welfare State: Pedagogues as Parenting Guides

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Ida Dannesboe ◽  
Dil Bach ◽  
Bjørg Kjær ◽  
Charlotte Palludan
Keyword(s):  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
The Family ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Simultaneous Process ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Right ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
Children’S Development ◽  
At Home

In Denmark, a process of defamilising has taken place since the expansion of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector in the 1960s, in the sense that children now spend a large part of their childhood outside the family. Nevertheless, parents are still seen as key figures in children's upbringing and as having primary responsibility for the quality of childhood, implying a simultaneous process of refamilising. Based on ethnographic fieldwork we show that parents are not only held responsible for their children's lives at home, but also for ensuring that ECEC staff have the best possible opportunity to support children's development at ECEC institutions. We analyse how ECEC staff offer guidance on how to be a responsible parent who cooperates in the right ways, and on how to cultivate children's development at home. Parents willingly accept such advice because of a strong risk awareness embedded in diagnostic forms, positioning ECEC staff as parenting experts.

Children's development in the family environment

2005 ◽  
pp. 159-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Schoon ◽  
Amanda Sacker ◽  
Steven Hope ◽  
Stephen Collishaw ◽  
Barbara Maughan
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
Children’S Development

The Voice of the Child in Family Placement Decision-Making: A Developmental Model

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Schofield
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Developmental Theory ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Placement Decision ◽  
Strengths And Difficulties ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Children’S Development

Making sense of children's development, and in particular the impact of maltreatment and loss on children's minds and behaviour, is an essential part both of listening to children and facilitating their participation in family placement decision-making. Gillian Schofield suggests that an understanding of developmental theory can help practitioners to identify children's strengths and difficulties, make sense of children's communications and enable children to feel more valued and effective. A number of key areas of development are linked together into a model that highlights the complex transactional and psychosocial nature of development, while encouraging practitioners to use this knowledge to support and empower children.

Maternal emotional expressiveness affects preschool children's development of knowledge of display rules

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xixian Wu ◽  
Yifang Wang ◽  
Aizhen Liu
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
Emotional Expressiveness ◽  
Display Rules ◽  
The Family ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
Children’S Development

We explored the development of knowledge of display rules in preschool children aged between 3 and 5 years and its relationship with the emotional expression of mothers, using a sample of 183 Chinese children together with their mothers. Children were tested individually with 6 scenario stories, and mothers completed a measure to assess their expressiveness within the family. Results suggested that the mother's positive expressiveness was significantly and positively related to the child's knowledge of display rules, but there was no significant correlation between the mother's negative expressiveness and the child's knowledge of display rules. In addition, knowledge of display rules improved significantly between the ages of 3 and 5 years. These findings indicate that the preschoolers had some knowledge of display rules, and that this improved with age. Thus, mothers should regularly express positive emotions to promote their children's development of knowledge of display rules.

Children’s development in the family environment

2018 ◽  
pp. 159-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Schoon ◽  
Amanda Sacker ◽  
Steven Hope ◽  
Stephen Collishaw ◽  
Barbara Maughan
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
Children’S Development

scholarly journals Behaviour Disorders of Children with the Feeling of Alienation

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
Henryk Cudak
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Development Stages ◽  
The Family ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
Children’S Development

Abstract Family constitutes a social, emotional, biological, and axiological environment which is hard to be substituted by other environments. The significance of family in children’s development, especially during the first development stages, is extremely high. The negative phenomenon in the family environment manifesting itself in indifference or even in only partly conscious emotional alienation, evokes the feeling of alienation in a child.

scholarly journals Themes and Theories Revisited: Perspectives on Processes in Family–Peer Relationships

Children ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 507
Author(s):  
Gary W. Ladd ◽  
Ross D. Parke
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Peer Relations ◽  
Family System ◽  
The Family ◽  
State Of The Science ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
Do So ◽  
Children’S Development ◽  
Sociocultural Issues

Nearly thirty years ago, we invited a consortium of esteemed researchers to contribute to a volume entitled Family–Peer Relations: Modes of Linkage that provided a state-of-the-science appraisal of theory and research within the newly emerging discipline of family–peer relations. The volume’s first chapter was titled, “Themes and Theories: Perspectives on Processes in Family–Peer Relationships”, and its primary aims were to identify the processes in the family system that were posited to have a bearing on children’s development in the peer system (and vice versa), characterize potential mechanisms of linkage, describe extant lines of investigation, appraise empirical accomplishments, and identify issues in need of further investigation. Here, nearly thirty years hence, we are pleased to have the opportunity to reappraise the theory and research on family–peer relations. In this article, we revisit the primary objectives that were addressed in our previously published “Themes and Theories” chapter but do so with the express purpose of evaluating the discipline’s progress. Likewise, we also revisit our prior roadmap and associated calls-to-action to update these entities in light of past accomplishments, current limitations, and pressing sociocultural issues and concerns.

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