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The Purpose, Problem, Background, Research, Findings, & Conclusion

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The Purpose, Problem, Background, Research, Findings, & Conclusion

Problem
[(Laren 2011)-The problem is that adolescents require more help, guidance, and structure
when working toward goals within their social society compared to adults. Adolescents face
stimulating test such as severe sensitiveness and restricted time overview than most adults do
making it harder for them to stay focused and motivated. Having the power to control ones own
behavior, thoughts, and emotions in appropriate situations, would nourish clear results from
adolescents in school, there personal lifestyles, and help develop long-lasting relationships.
Trying to control your own emotions, thoughts, and behaviors alone can create problems.
(Kasdan and Rottenber 2010)-With proven data, psychological flexibility is said to enrich strong
progress. ]
Purpose
[(Moilanen et al. 2010) The purpose was to investigate the impact on the growth of
psychological flexibility using parenting styles. The connections between parenting styles and
psychological flexibility was viewed in the mist of adolescents. The parents and family plays a
major role in a childs development depending on the treatments they may receive at home.
(Gottman et al. 1996)-Children who may lack attention, and make feel, as everything they do is
wrong could have a downfall on having the ability to control his/her own thoughts, behavior, or
emotions. A child who feelings are almost always overlooked, made feel unworthy, or even is
always talked to with an attitude or being yelled at began to classify their emotions as worthless.
On the other hand, a child who is taught by a legal guardian of any sort, how to control their own
emotions, behavior, and thoughts, are better calming themselves down in a intense situation. A

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predominant, disciplinary, understanding, with use of reasoning parent is more likely to raise up
a child who can cope with his/her surroundings, and be goal oriented are qualities of
psychological flexibility. I really do agree with the research given because my mother was so
strict on me I did not have any choice, but to do well, or I would get a whooping. My younger
brothers and I was only expected to do well in school, and clean the house. Now I have seen
where children lack that discipline in the households and strayed away, but children that have to
experience that love their parents the hardest, like a child who is receiving sometimes can take
that disciple for granted. Have a great-aunt who has eight children with five different men. She
was crackhead for my greatgrandmother was forced to keep them. They went from family
member house to family member house until they became adults. Out of the eight children, two
actually received and high school diploma, two has been in and out of jail, one is doing life for a
murder charge. One was is doing all right because her dad stepped up and saved her, and the
others are just strays. So I have kind of eye witness this research in real life. ]
Background and Previous Research
[(Finkenauer et al. 2005)-The previous research realize that the parenting style to be in
correlation with warmth tying in easily with behavioral control, and warmth and behavioral
control tie in dissimilarly with psychological flexibility.]
Research Performed
[(Heaven and Ciarrochi 2007, 2008)-The subjects of the researched performed were
students from five different high schools from Catholic Diocese of New South Wales, Australia.
The analyzes had a total of 749 high school students with 50% being female in the age group
ranging from 11-14 years old, when they started their freshman year of high school in the 7th
grade. For each grade, the number of students who attended school are as follows: 8th grade 792,

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9th grade 786, 10th grade 778, with enormous decreasing in numbers in the 11th grade 565, and
12th grade 468. The partakers was asked to do in a Youth Issues survey. In which the results
used to measure the psychological flexibility.]
Finding and Conclusions
[The research included four test with interconnections between parenting styles and
psychological flexibility. High scores expected for authoritarian parenting style, which refers to
the demanding supervision and low warmth and will lack or have low affiliation with
psychological flexibility within adolescents. Authoritative parenting style had the second highest
scores, which have extensive levels of psychological flexibility. As a child grows and understand
more they are more likely to consider their parents as less authoritarian and less authoritarian, as
I do with my mom. It actually took my mom a longer time to loosen up on me than it did with
my younger brothers. My mom was considered a little of both, but it actually took my aunt one
day to called my mom to tell her to let me grown up, at that point I was 18 and a freshman in
college and my mom was still babying me, and now I am 23, it just harder for her tot let me go.
Based on the research findings it is suggest that overtime the keeping up with, and guidance will
lower they scores of the authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles increasing the permissive
parenting style will increase. ]
Course Connections
[This article has many things in it that connects to the lecture such as the parenting styles
for starters. (Baumrind 1997)-In class we have discussed Dina Baumrind three parenting styles
which includes authoritative (high responsiveness x high demandingness), authoritarian (low
responsiveness x high demandingness), and permissive (high responsiveness x low
demandingness). In addition, I think a little of chapter three is referenced in the article. In class

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the professor gave an example of how she didnt raise her hand in class anymore because of an
bad experience as a child, and in the article it give the same kind of example when it was
referring to as the person who lack psychological flexibility which says it could limit response
options. ]

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