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The Nature of the Child

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Drive for independence from parents expands the social world.

In middle childhood, children want to do things themselves.

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Self-concept

The Nature of the Child

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  • Ideas about self that include intelligence, personality, abilities, gender, and ethnic background
  • Ages 6 and 11 (average)
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Erikson’s Stage Theory: School age (6-12 years)

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  • Conflict: Industry vs. Inferiority
  • Resolution or “Virtue:” Competence
  • Culmination in old age: Humility; acceptance of the course of one’s life and unfulfilled hopes
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Social Comparison

Abilities: Social Comparison

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Involves tendency to assess one’s abilities, achievements, social status, and other attributes by measuring them against those of other people, especially one’s peers
• Children value the abilities they have and become more realistic.
• Recognition of prejudice and affirming pride in gender and background increases.

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Self-concept becomes influenced by…

Abilities: Social Comparison

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opinions of others, materialism, and superficial attributes

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Industry versus inferiority

The Nature of the School-Age Children

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– Fourth of Erikson’s psychosocial crises
– Characterized by tension between productivity and
incompetence

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Children attempt to…

The Nature of the School-Age Children

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master culturally valued skills and develop a sense of themselves as either industrious or inferior, competent or incompetent.

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Signs of Psychological Maturation Developing Between Ages 6 and 11

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  • Responsibly perform specific chores
  • Manage a weekly allowance and activities
  • Complete homework
  • Attempt to conform to peers
  • Express preferences for after-school hours
  • Accept some responsibility for pets, younger children
  • Strive for independence from parents
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Culture and Self-Esteem

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• Cultures and families differ in which attitudes and accomplishments they value.
• Emerging self-perception benefits academic and social competence.
• Praise for process—not static qualities—encourages growth.
– Incremental versus entity concept of growth

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3 factors that influence attitudes about
self-esteem
(Protect or Puncture Self-Esteem?)

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Culture, cohort, and age

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Traditional research findings suggest

Protect or Puncture Self-Esteem?

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unrealistically high and unrealistically low self-esteem
– Reduces effortful control
– May lead to lower achievement and increased aggression

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Some current research links

Protect or Puncture Self-Esteem?

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low self-esteem with increased aggression; other findings link inflated self-esteem with male bullying and aggression.

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Resilience

Resilience and Stress

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Capacity to adapt well to significant adversity and to

overcome serious stress

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Important components

Resilience and Stress

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Dominant ideas about resilience from 1965 to present day
• Resilience is dynamic
• Resilience is a positive adaptation to stress
• Adversity must be significant

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Resilience is dynamic

Resilience and Stress

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a person may be resilient at some periods but not at others.

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Resilience is a positive adaptation to stress

Resilience and Stress

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if rejection by a parent leads a child to establish a closer relationship with another adult, that child is resilient.

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Adversity must be significant

Resilience and Stress

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Resilient children overcome conditions that overwhelm many of their peers.

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Cumulative Stress

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• Accumulated stresses over time is more devastating than an isolated major stressor, e..g., disruptive home, hunger
• Daily hassles can be more detrimental than isolated
major stress
• Social context imperative
– Child soldiers
– Homeless children
– Separation after natural disaster

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Factors contributing to resilience

Cognitive Coping

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  • Child’s interpretation of events: How they process and internalize traumatic events
  • Support of family and community
  • Personal strengths such as creativity and intelligence: Nature and Nurture
  • Avoidance of parentification
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Parentification

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When a child acts more like a parent than a child. This may occur if the actual parents do not act as caregivers, making a child feel responsible for the family

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Family function
(Family Function / Structure)
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  • The way a family works to meet the needs of its members

* Function is more important than structure but harder to measure

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During middle childhood, families help children by

Family Function / Structure

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  • Providing basic material necessities
  • Encouraging learning
  • Helping them develop self-respect
  • Nurturing friendships
  • Fostering harmony and stability
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Family structure
(Family Function / Structure)
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  • Legal and genetic relationships among relatives living in the same home
  • Includes nuclear family, extended family, stepfamily, and others.
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Diverse Family Structures

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  • Two-Parent Families
  • Single-Parent Families
  • More Than Two Adults
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Two-Parent Families | Diverse Family Structures
* Nuclear family * Stepparent family * Adoptive family * Grandparents alone * Two same-sex parents
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Single-Parent Families | Diverse Family Structures
* Single mother or father (never married) * Single mother or father (divorced, separated, or widowed) * Grandparent alone
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More Than Two Adults | Diverse Family Structures
* Extended family | * Polygamous family
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Single-Parent Family | Diversity of Family Structures
* Consists of only one parent and his or her children under age 18. * 31 percent of all U.S. school-age children; rates of structure changes depend on age of child * More than half of U.S. children will live in a single-parent home for at least a year.
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Extended family | Diversity of Family Structures
* Family consisting of parents, their children, and other relatives living in one household * 10 percent of U.S. school-age children * Family type distinction based on who lives in same household
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Polygamous family | Diversity of Family Structures
• Family consisting of one man, several wives, and the biological children of the man and his wives – 10 percent of children in some nations (not U.S.) • Per-child income may be reduced • Step-sibling role is challenging for many
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Connecting Structure and Function: Nuclear Families
* Generally function best * Better educational, social, cognitive, and behavioral child outcomes * Mate selection and income related to nuclear families and child well-being * Parental alliance * Positive effects beyond childhood
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Adoptive and same-sex parent families | Connecting Structure and Function: Other Two-Parent Families
– Typically function well, often better than average nuclear families. – Vary tremendously in ability to meet children’s needs.
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Stepparent families | Connecting Structure and Function: Other Two-Parent Families
– Some function well; positive relationships more easily formed with children under 2; more difficult with teenagers – Solid parental alliance more difficult to form – Child loyalty to parents often undermined by disputes
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Same-sex couple families | Connecting Structure and Function: Other Two-Parent Families
– Generally children develop well | – Limited long-term studies
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Skipped-generation families | Connecting Structure and Function: Other Two-Parent Families
Generally lower income, more health problems, less stability
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Connecting Structure and Function: Single-Parent Families
– On average, structure functions less well – Lower income and stability – Stress from multiple roles – Benefit from community support
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Family Trouble (two factors)
Two factors increase the likelihood of dysfunction in every structure, ethnic group, and nation. • Low income or poverty • High conflict Many families experience both!
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Poverty: Family-stress model | Family Trouble
* Any risk factor damages a family only if it increases the stress on that family. * Adults' stressful reaction to poverty is crucial in determining the effect on the children.
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Wealth | Family Trouble
* Generally more income correlates with better family functioning. * Reaction to wealth may cause difficulty; parental reaction is key.
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Conflict | Family Trouble
* Family conflict harms children, especially when adults fight about child rearing. * Fights are more common in stepfamilies, divorced families, and extended families. * Although genes have some effect, conflict itself is often the main influence on the child's well-being.
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The Peer Group
• Particular habits, styles, and values that reflect the set of rules and rituals that characterize children as distinct from adult society – Fashion – Language – Peer culture
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Friendship | Friendship and Social Acceptance
• School-age children value personal friendship more than peer acceptance. • Gender differences – Girls talk more and share secrets. – Boys play more active games.
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Older children | Friendship and Social Acceptance
* Demand more of their friends. * Change friends less often. * Become more upset when a friendship ends. * Find it harder to make new friends. * Seek friends who share their interests and values.
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Popular and Unpopular Children
Particular qualities that make a child liked or disliked depend on culture, cohort, and sometimes the local region or school. • China 1990 to 2013 – Changes in value of shyness • U.S. 2012 – Outgoing, friendly, cooperative, well-liked – Later, dominant and aggressive behaviors may appear
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Neglected, not rejected children | Unpopular Children
* Neglected by peers, but not actively rejected * Ignored, but not shunned * Do not enjoy school; but psychologically unharmed
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Aggressive-rejected children | Unpopular Children
Disliked by peers because of antagonistic, confrontational behavior
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Withdrawn-rejected children | Unpopular Children
Disliked by peers because of their timid, withdrawn, and anxious behavior
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Bullying | Bullies and Victims
Repeated, systematic efforts to inflict harm through physical, verbal, or social attack on a weaker person
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Bully-victim | Bullies and Victims
* Someone who attacks others and who is attacked as well | * Also called a provocative victim because he or she does things that elicit bullying, such as stealing a bully's pencil
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Types of Bullying
* Physical (hitting, pinching, or kicking) * Verbal (teasing, taunting, or name-calling) * Relational (destroying peer acceptance and friendship) * Cyberbullying (using electronic means to harm another)
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Children show a variety of skills | Children's Moral Values
* Making moral judgments. | * Differentiating universal principles from conventional norms.
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Influences on moral development | Children's Moral Values
* Peer culture * Personal experience * Empathy
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Pre-conventional, Stage 1 | Kohlberg's levels of moral thought
Obedience and punishment – Based on avoiding punishment, a focus on the consequences of actions, rather than intentions; intrinsic deference to authority
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Pre-conventional, Stage 2 | Kohlberg's levels of moral thought
Individualism and exchange | – The "right" behaviors are those that are in best interest of oneself; tit for tat mentality
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Conventional, Stage 3 | Kohlberg's levels of moral thought
Interpersonal relationships | – "Good boy / Good girl" attitude, sees individuals as filling social roles
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Conventional, Stage 4 | Kohlberg's levels of moral thought
Authority and social order | – Law and order as highest ideals, social obedience is a must to maintaining a functional society
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Post-conventional, Stage 5 | Kohlberg's levels of moral thought
Social contract | – Begin to learn others have different values; realization that law is contingent on culture
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Post-conventional, Stage 6 | Kohlberg's levels of moral thought
Universal Principles | – Develop internal moral principles; individual begins to obey these above the law
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Three common values among 6- to 11-year-olds | What Children Value
1. Protect your friends. – Loyalty to peers often chosen over adult standards of behavior. 2. Don't tell adults what is happening. 3. Don't be too different from your peers.

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