Adolescent Development

ABSTRACT: Using social cognitive career theory, we examined the relationships between parental variables (parental career expectations, adolescent–parent career congruence) and adolescent career aspirations and career actions (planning,exploration) in a sample of Grade 10 Indonesian high school students. We found good support for a model that revealed various routes by which the two parental variables were associated with adolescent career aspirations and career actions, although the main influence of the parental variables was by way of self-efficacy. The findings demonstrate important roles for parental career expectations and adolescent–parent career congruence in adolescents’ career aspirations and actions

Baumrind and others tend to focus on 2 major characteristics. (1) Responsiveness of the parent to the child. This includes being reasonable and nurturant and providing supportive feedback to the child; (2) Demandingness of the parent for the child to comply with established rules and expectations. When these 2 variables are considered (in the chart above), we gain a better understanding of the resulting Styles of Parenting.

Authoratative style: These parents love their children, hope the best for them, and have high expectations in terms of compliance to adult direction and school success.

Authoritarian style: These parents love their children, hope the best for them, and have high expectations in terms of compliance to adult direction and school success. 

Permissive style: These parents love their children, hope the best for them, but do not provide specific direction in terms of expectations and rules for compliance. Children are often left to decide for themselves what they will do.

Continuous development: A view of  the development as gradual and ongoing throughout the lifespan with behaviour in the earlier stages of development providing the basis of skills and abilities required for the next stages (transformation over a long period of time.)

Moral development is part pf psycho-social development and the Heinz Dilemma is a part of Lawrence Kohlberg's studies. Jean Piaget stated that moral development was development through stages whereas Kohlberg theorized it was an ongoing development and hence created the Heinz Dilemma, Heinz was a man who's wife was suffering from illness and Heinz tried everything to get money to buy some medication and in the end he stole it as he couldn't afford to buy some. Kohlberg questioned if Heinz should have done this and the answer to this question  was what interested him with different individuals and was not interested in the answer of the participants so much but was more interested in the reasoning behind their answers. 

Over the weekend a discussion in my flat began about this tumblr project and some of the topics.. and out of no where dating culture came up. We began to discuss that there really isn't much of a dating culture in New Zealand is there? So we began to look it up and see what good ol' Uncle Google had to say and it seemed that many Kiwi's had the same idea and that it was often described as the way to find 'the one' was through going out,getting drunk and ending up in someones bed and somehow falling into repeat with one specific person. Now I know that that isn't the case for some, but for many it really is. Amongst the findings on google I found a discussion where an American was inquiring, for research, about New Zealand dating culture and the responses were all basically the same- there is none. Here is that link --> 

http://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1cex9g/dating_in_new_zealand/

I found the responses on this quite interesting for example, 

While I'm finding a lot of great resources on domestic abuse

"So proud to be a New Zealander right now. Someone goes looking for information on our dating culture and they come back with information on domestic violence"

I remember recently I saw something somewhere online and it said something like imagine if the scenario for bars was the same for bookshops. Like You're in a shop and a man offers to buy you a book. If someone really did this, chances are the outcome of the scenario would be much better then offering to buy me a drink.. except shorter and wittier but the point is it doesn't happen. For some reason it is only okay to be that 'kind' in a bar and generally there's a reason for it. 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/295808 <-- another link that states "no dating, thanks, just sex"... for some reason this article points the finger at women.. but I think that's unfair and that it takes two to tango.