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CHILD PSYCHOLOGY: EGOCENTRISM Little is it apparent to chaperones, especially of infants, what evokes different activities of a child. Despite babysitters tremendous and profound efforts to prevent and barricade their clients (children) from dangerous and hazardous consequences, a child is confused for or worried about whether they are being anaesthetic or have impaired receptors, for they are defiantly struggling to get back to where or what they are prevented. For example, a child who finds pleasure and feels satisfied using their teeth hold fast their shoelace and subsequently feels contemptuous towards any adult who comes to their rescue. Another experience is that of an infant who is accommodated in a room where gadgets cables are fixed exposed and not appropriately kept enclosed. The child is not a bit remorseful approaching the cables, holds, and drags them to almost making the gadgets fall on the tiles floor. In this regard, we can ask ourselves whether every child is endowed or fortified by an antidote which is capable of neutralising or hyper-actively protecting the child from any hazard they are open to? Unsure?! What has come to light as regards that according to studies carried out by psychologists among which are Sigmund Freud, Kohlberg, Friedrich Froebel, etc is that a trait is attributed to children which serves as the personal lens from which they see, percieve or consider situations, regardless of what in reality is the situation. This personal perspective is what psychologists refer to EGOCENTRISM.

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👧👦 In the U.S., children with no or one sibling had the best mental health, while in China well-being was best among only children, says a new study from the Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University. Researchers analyzed data on 9,400 8th graders in China and 9,100 American 8th graders. “If you think of parental resources like a pie, one child means that they get all the pie—all the attention and resources of the parents,” said lead researcher Doug Downey. “But when you add more siblings, each child gets fewer resources and attention from the parents, and that may have an impact on their mental health.” Read more here: https://bit.ly/420yRS6

"𝑃𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑟 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑂𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑛𝑥𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, “𝐼𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠?” ...." The research over the past ten years delivers no evidence that connects the spread of social media with mental illness. "....𝐻𝑎𝑖𝑑𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 “𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑐 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑎 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒....𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑥𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑝𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑟 𝐴𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑃𝑟𝑧𝑦𝑏𝑦𝑙𝑠𝑘𝑖 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ 𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟: “𝐸𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝑅𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤, 𝐼’𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡.” 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑡𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑝𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑟 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝐹𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝐻𝑎𝑖𝑑𝑡’𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙-𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠’ 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑜 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑟, 𝐻𝑎𝑖𝑑𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, “𝐼 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 – 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑡?”" What do you think it is? Without even considering genetic and biological factors, here's a list of impacts I thought up in minutes. A list where we've seen dramatic societal shifts over the past 40 years. (All without any evidence what-so-ever, just life-experience 👵 ). - Let's start with what children see each night on the News (Just in Australia in recent weeks we've all been exposed to footage of stabbings, footage of people receiving CPR, images of mass graves and stories on child suicides) - Let's look at how many children with anxiety have parents on anti-depressants. Parental anxiety directly influences children via the modeling of behaviours. - Or higher divorce rates and the frequent changes in living situations that impacts emotional stability? - Or the mounting academic pressure from both parents and/or Schools? - Or the growth of overprotective parenting styles that restricts a child's ability to develop independence and resilience. Any more? #anxiousgeneration #anxiety #socialmedia #teens #wellbeing #haidt #mobilephones #mobiledevices #parenting #education #school #tech #technology #JonathanHaidt https://lnkd.in/giZEgxQi

How do stressful life events and chronic stressors experienced in adolescence influence the future self-identification of young adults? This is what a group of criminologists from the Netherlands, the USA, and Germany have been exploring in a study involving 1,482 Swiss youth.   Focusing on connectedness (i.e., how connected does someone feel to their future self), vividness (i.e., how clearly and easily can someone imagine the future self), and valence (i.e., a positive or negative attitude towards the future self), future self-identification is being explored as a source of resilience mediating the association between accumulated stressful life events on one hand and increased delinquency and lower educational attainment on the other.   The fascinating results: Experiencing more stressful life events predicted reduced future self-connectedness (but not vividness and valence). In turn, future self-connectedness partially mediated the association between stressful life events and low educational attainment. And last but not least, latent class trajectories revealed that there is no association between the timing of a stressful life event and future self-identification. 👉 Ganschow, B., Zebel, S., Van der Schalk, J., Hershfield, H. E., & Van Gelder, J.-L. (2023). Adolescent Stressful Life Events Predict Future Self- Connectedness in Adulthood. The Journal of Early Adolescence. https://lnkd.in/eD2_xW6r #future #selfcontinuity #futureself #education #crime #criminology #psychology Benjamin Ganschow, Sven Zebel, Hal Hershfield, Jean-Louis van Gelder, Universiteit Leiden, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam), University of Twente, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law

Stage 2 strategies for coping in adverse environments? Eric Dolan summarizes the research conducted by Kristopher J. Brazil, Ann H. Farrell, Abby Boer, and Anthony A. Volk. "Adolescents who grow up in negative social environments – characterized by hostility, neglect, and competition – may develop psychopathic traits as a form of adaptation to obtain socially valued outcomes, such as popularity and dating success, according to new research published in Development and Psychopathology. This suggests that the behaviors often associated with psychopathy, such as manipulation and a lack of empathy, might in some contexts serve as a strategy for adolescents to navigate and succeed in challenging social landscapes. "Psychopathic personality traits are characterized by a blend of interpersonal, affective, and behavioral dimensions. These traits include manipulation, grandiosity, callousness, unemotionality, impulsivity, and sensation-seeking. Individuals exhibiting high levels of psychopathic traits may show a superficial charm, a lack of empathy or remorse, and a willingness to exploit others for personal gain." Ultimately, the adolescents who adopt these psychopathic traits pose risks to themselves and to society, but this research suggests that they have immediately positive effects for adolescents in terms of social power and acquiring more dating partners. #adolescence #adultdevelopment #toxicculture #growthculture #shortterm #developmental https://lnkd.in/efruagvF

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