Research Findings Support the Conclusion That Urban African American Parents

question 30

Multiple Choice

Research findings support the conclusion that urban African American parents are more likely to exhibit coercive and controlling styles of parenting.What did the textbook authors conclude from this finding?

• A)This style of no-nonsense parenting is maladaptive.
• B)This parenting style represents a pattern of hostility that requires behavioural intervention to affect a course correction and longer-term change.
• C)This finding is problematic because authoritarian parenting has been shown to be the optimal form of parenting for all cultures and subcultures.
• D)The middle-class pattern of authoritarian parenting may not be the most adaptive pattern for all ecological niches.

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Embarrassment

A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness that occurs when private aspects of the self are exposed or when failing to meet social expectations.

Participating

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Education

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Research

The systemic investigation or study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.