Research Article

The Influence of Parents on Socialization Processes Related to Prosocial Development in Children and Adolescents

Volume: 25 Number: 2 March 15, 2017
Turhan Şengönül
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The Influence of Parents on Socialization Processes Related to Prosocial Development in Children and Adolescents

Abstract

This article addresses the relations between parental socialization practices and prosocial behaviors in children and adolescents. Theorists and researchers have suggested that parental support, affection, warmth or responsiveness influences positively socialization processes. Children may attend to and care more about the parental socialization messages in a supportive, warm, responsive and democratic family environment. Parents who exhibit democratic attitudes and behaviors exert control in order to attain expected and desired behaviors for their children. They can induce empathy, perspective-taking and sympathy in their children by pointing out the beneficial or harmful consequences of their actions through inductive reasoning and explanations. Children and adolescents can use prosocial moral reasoning and display prosocial behaviors when they see perspectives of others and experience empathy, guilt and sympathy more vicariously.  

Keywords

Parental warmth/responsiveness,inductive reasoning or explanations,empathy,sympathy,prosocial behavior

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APA
Şengönül, T. (2017). The Influence of Parents on Socialization Processes Related to Prosocial Development in Children and Adolescents. Kastamonu Education Journal, 25(2), 643-658. https://izlik.org/JA56EL65KE
AMA
1.Şengönül T. The Influence of Parents on Socialization Processes Related to Prosocial Development in Children and Adolescents. Kastamonu Education Journal. 2017;25(2):643-658. https://izlik.org/JA56EL65KE
Chicago
Şengönül, Turhan. 2017. “The Influence of Parents on Socialization Processes Related to Prosocial Development in Children and Adolescents”. Kastamonu Education Journal 25 (2): 643-58. https://izlik.org/JA56EL65KE.
EndNote
Şengönül T (March 1, 2017) The Influence of Parents on Socialization Processes Related to Prosocial Development in Children and Adolescents. Kastamonu Education Journal 25 2 643–658.
IEEE
[1]T. Şengönül, “The Influence of Parents on Socialization Processes Related to Prosocial Development in Children and Adolescents”, Kastamonu Education Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 643–658, Mar. 2017, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA56EL65KE
ISNAD
Şengönül, Turhan. “The Influence of Parents on Socialization Processes Related to Prosocial Development in Children and Adolescents”. Kastamonu Education Journal 25/2 (March 1, 2017): 643-658. https://izlik.org/JA56EL65KE.
JAMA
1.Şengönül T. The Influence of Parents on Socialization Processes Related to Prosocial Development in Children and Adolescents. Kastamonu Education Journal. 2017;25:643–658.
MLA
Şengönül, Turhan. “The Influence of Parents on Socialization Processes Related to Prosocial Development in Children and Adolescents”. Kastamonu Education Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, Mar. 2017, pp. 643-58, https://izlik.org/JA56EL65KE.
Vancouver
1.Turhan Şengönül. The Influence of Parents on Socialization Processes Related to Prosocial Development in Children and Adolescents. Kastamonu Education Journal [Internet]. 2017 Mar. 1;25(2):643-58. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA56EL65KE