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How Parents Promote Children’s Well-Being

How Parents Promote Children’s Well-Being. Eva M. Pomerantz. Think to the Future. What Attributes Would You Like to Foster in Your Child? How Would You Do It?. Parents as Shapers. Parenting. Child Well Being. Major Dimensions of Parenting. Structure Autonomy Support Affect. Structure.

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How Parents Promote Children’s Well-Being

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  1. How Parents Promote Children’s Well-Being Eva M. Pomerantz

  2. Think to the Future • What Attributes Would You Like to Foster in Your Child? • How Would You Do It?

  3. Parents as Shapers Parenting Child Well Being

  4. Major Dimensions of Parenting • Structure • Autonomy Support • Affect

  5. Structure • Setting Limits • Monitoring • Guidance • Scaffolding

  6. Structure Predicts. . . • Decreased • Aggression • Delinquency • Increased • Positive Peer Relations • Achievement

  7. Autonomy Support • Autonomy-Supportive • Allow Exploration of Environment • Permit Initiation of Own Behavior • Independent Problem Solving • Encourage Generation of Own Strategies • Controlling • Pressure to Meet Outcome • Regulate Behavior • Commands • Directives • Orders • Love Withdrawal

  8. Autonomy Support Predicts. . . • Decreased • Extrinsic Motivation • Helplessness • Depression • Aggression • Increased • Intrinsic Motivation • Mastery • Achievement • Positive Peer Relations

  9. Affect • Positive • Warm and Loving • Supportive • Encouraging • Enjoy Interactions • Negative • Hostile • Criticizes • Annoyed and Frustrated

  10. Positive Affect Predicts. . . • Decreased • Extrinsic Motivation • Helplessness • Depression • Aggression • Increased • Intrinsic Motivation • Mastery • Positive Emotional Functioning • Achievement

  11. What Should a Parent Do? • Authoritative Parenting • Provide Structure • Support Autonomy • Maintain Positive Affect • Benjamin and Garrison

  12. Children as Shapers Child Well-Being Parenting

  13. Parenting Child Well Being Child Attributes It Takes a Parent and a Child

  14. Mothers’ Affect Depends on Children’s Helplessness • Guiding Hypothesis • Mothers’ Affect • Positive Affect on Days Assisted with Homework • Children’s Helplessness • Mother, Teacher, and Child Reports • Children’s Well-Being • Children Complete Questionnaires

  15. Mothers’ Affect Depends on Children’s Helplessness

  16. Summary • Be an Authoritative Parent • Provide Structure • Support Autonomy • Maintain Positive Affect • It’s Not Just the Parent • The Effects of Parenting Depend on What Children Bring • Parental Sensitivity to Children’s Attributes

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