Parental Stress Flashcards
Why do stepfamilies often report elevated levels of stress?
Stepfamilies, as the article points out, report elevated levels of stress because they have to deal with the new adjustments they must make.
Why do ethnic minority and immigrant families experience stress?
The younger generation adjusts to the new culture faster than their parents, who may perceive this rapid change as a betrayal of their culture of origin.
Who developed family stress theory?
Reuben Hill
What does parental stress spill over into?
Their childrearing
How do stressful responses by parents affect children?
It may lead to such negative outcomes in the young such as…
1) reduced willingness to be responsive to parents’ expectations
2) less effective social skills
3) problems with peer adjustment
4) feelings of rejection
5) lowered self esteem
6) disruptive and aggressive behaviors
7) social withdrawal
8) distressed psychological experiences
What symptoms do stressed parents manifest?
Neglect, authoritarian, and abuse towards their children, which then negatively affects their children.
What are daily hassles and what kind of families tend to be more prone to stress resulting from daily hassles?
Daily hassles include the constant caregiving demands and pressures that arise from everyday tasks involved in dealing with children. Single-parent families may be particularly prone to stress resulting from daily hassles because adult partners aren’t available to share the everyday tasks of child rearing and help buffer the challenges and stress.
What kinds of stress do developmental transitions fall under?
Normative stress
What is one of the significant developmental transition periods? What happens during this time?
One of the pivotal development transition periods occurs when the young are experiencing the adolescent years. A key issue that evokes stress for parents is the process of granting increased autonomy to their child.
What is generational dissonance?
An uncomfortable sense of discord, disharmony, confusion, or conflict experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment.
What are off-time developments?
When normal events–such as retirement, the death of an elderly family member, etc.–occur at unanticipated times, causing disruptive distress for parents.
What are some examples of children who have identified social-emotional problems?
Youngsters diagnosed as demonstrating conduct disorders, delinquency, attention deficit disorders, autism, or schizophrenia.
What is the difference between positive and negative resources?
Positive resources: the traits, qualities, characteristics, and abilities of parents, parent-child relationships, family systems, and the larger social context that have the capacity to address the demands of stressors.
Negative resources: the potential vulnerabilities of parents and parent-child relationships to stressors and crisis events.
What is parental competence?
A complex array of individual resources, such as psychological maturity, empathy, warmth, secure self-image, self efficacy, capacity to express affection
What is the difference between emotional and instrumental support?
Emotional support: behavior that communicates caring
Instrumental support: concrete assistance that reduces parents’ tasks, and responsibilities of parents’ tasks and responsibilities of parents.
