Parents and Children.: Parental Influence on Children
Parents usually exert a greater influence on their children than any other single factor. They serve as role models, communicate values, and shape the child's experiences.
Different Strokes: Importance of Peer Influence on Development
Peers tend to exert influence over what young people wear, the music they like, and how they want to spend their free time. Most teens admire their parents and retain many of their basic values but clash over curfew and control issues. An 8th ...
The Learning Machine: Mass Media as a Source of Observational Learning
Mass media provides potent role models that influence children, teens, and adults. Correlation studies link children's aggressive patterns of behavior with television. A diet of televised violence tends to reduce restraints over aggression, and dese...
The Becoming Years: Adolescent Social Development
In the early stages of adolescence, children tend to be egocentric, feeling the eyes of an imaginary audience on them, believing their life is unique and different from other people. These early stirrings of "self" include trying different personali...