Couter Claim#2: Aggression
Aggression is an important component of antisocial behaviour and is induced due to negative parenting. Authoritarian parents sometimes resort to yelling, spanking and other forms of aggressive behaviour to control the behaviour kids. In the 1960s, Albert Bandura of Stanford University came up with a Social Learning Theory which suggests that a child learns behaviour from interaction with significant people in their environment, particularly parents and these behaviours are maintained through modelling and reinforcement. Through the controversial Bobo Doll experiments, Bandura found that young children exposed to televised aggression became more aggressive, even though their behaviors had not been reinforced through …show more content…
Children imbibe some of the negative emotions and poor regulation strategies that they have learned during negative parent–child interactions and use them in their own interactions with peers. A study conducted on 325 Chinese students by Schwartz, Chang & Proctor (2000) suggests that harsh parenting that has an effect on child aggression in the school environment through the mediating process of child emotion regulation. The researchers’ found that mothers’ harsh parenting affected child emotion regulation more strongly than fathers’, whereas harsh parenting emanating from fathers had a stronger effect on child …show more content…
Social competence, resilience and social networks are protective factors and help in avoidance of anti-social behavior. Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties while competence is a term used to indicate the social and emotional skills children needed for positive developmental outcomes and effective social interactions such as getting along well with others, initiating play, entering play, and resolving conflict with peers. Social competence plays a significant role in the advancement of positive youth development and avoidance of risk during childhood and adolescence. Social competence and resilience are commonly considered as a pro-social behavior, hence are inversely related to anti-social behavior. To understand the development of social competence vis-à-vis different parenting styles, Diana Baumrind (1991) found that authoritative parents who are highly demanding and highly responsive were remarkably successful in protecting their adolescents from problem drug use, and in developing competence in them. Baumrind also found that substance abuse was more common to authoritarian parenting style and relapses were faster than other parenting styles. Also, a study by KatjaPetrowski et al (2014) revealed that those with