PSYCH101 Psychology

In this module, you learned how family, peers, and cultural influences affect a person development. Create a journal entry on how one factor in each category(family, peers, culture) has affected you personally, whether you feel it is positive or negative, and why.

In present day societies, there are three main aspects in which a person’s behavior depends: families, peers, and culture, for example, in schools the regular experiences of youngsters are organized and supervised by adults.

The genes inherited from our parent’s effects our behavior. Our social condition including our family, friends, and neighborhood have some impact on our behavior. More interactions with different persons will help us to change our life in a negative or positive way. Hence, the things which are the biggest influence in our life are our companions, family, and culture.

Parents have a big influence on their child’s behavior. Children are like mud, they reflect everything a parent does and implement those into their own lives. It is vital that parents set the positive examples for their youngsters. Negative illustrations can be unfavorable to a kid's improvement and lead to bad conduct.

Parents are of two types one who are accepting and second those who are rejecting. Children whose guardians make them feel loved and allows freedom to develop themselves according to their mind are very different from that child who feels rejected, misunderstood and absurdly compelled. The family influences attributes of the general public. A significant part of the investigation of family issues has originated from the origination of the family as the solidarity of interfacing identities. This origination has fortified research to find those components that disturb family solidarity and make issues in communication.

As the kid becomes younger and takes part in activities outside the family, his interactions with individuals outside his family turn out to be important for his development. As the youngster matures his peers’ turn out to be more important to him. The adolescent’s failure or success in winning social acknowledgment from both young men and young ladies is a big impact on his further improvement.

Child abuse leads to destructive and antisocial behavior of the child. This happens as the abused kids try to understand the reason behind their abuse. Guardians who abuse their youngsters may make their kids be aggressive and fierce, encounter learning issues and even involve themselves in the intake of liquor.

Despite the fact that we have singled out parent-kid and peer relations as maybe the most vital, it is evident that numerous different sorts of relationships with siblings and sisters, grandparents, instructors, and neighbors may have an influence in forming an identity. Even a possibility meeting with somebody may alter the course of our lives.

Kids experience childhood in particular physical, social, economic and cultural conditions all of which will affect their youth. Research has been done to view the way children’s culture of the society can impact their behavior. We realize that culture affects a child’s development. Development obviously includes a procedure of learning and change, and a child can understand that there are other peoples to support them.

The potential restrictions related to poor financial conditions can be overcome by guardians providing moral support and stimulation for their kids. So, it is essential, be that as it may, to perceive the way of the interrelationships between family foundation attributes and more refined family impacts.

References

Van Wormer, K., 2017. Human behavior and the social environment, micro level: Individuals and families. Oxford University Press.

Alesina, A. and Giuliano, P., 2015. Culture and institutions. Journal of Economic Literature, 53(4), pp.898-944.

Chasiotis, A., Bender, M. and Hofer, J., 2014. Childhood context explains cultural variance in implicit parenting motivation: Results from two studies with six samples from Cameroon, Costa Rica, Germany, and PR China. Evolutionary Psychology, 12(2), p.147470491401200203.

Lawton, K.E. and Gerdes, A.C., 2014. Acculturation and Latino adolescent mental health: Integration of individual, environmental, and family influences. Clinical child and family psychology review, 17(4), pp.385-398.