Question

Surya wants 8-year-old Leila to start her homework. Leila doesn't want to turn off the TV. Surya raises her voice and threatens to take away Leila's TV privileges for a week if she doesn't comply. Surya enters the room and commands Leila to obey. Leila begins to wail, saying that the homework is too hard and that she never understands it anyway. At this point the phone rings. Surya gets absorbed in the call. Thirty minutes later, Leila is still watching TV and another battle ensues. Surya, exhausted from the struggle, take her to bed. This scenario is an example of which phenomenon?

a. Patterson's coercive family process.
b. Maccoby's authoritative parenting.
c. Baumrind's authoritarian parenting.
d. James' egocentric family process.

Answer 1

The answer is: A. Patterson's coercive family process.

Patterson's coercive family process highlight the relationship between Caregivers and the children, especially during caregiver's effort to enforce a certain behavior to the children.

In coercive family process, the caregiver tend to try to force the children to conform to the caregiver's demand by utilizing negative emotions (such as raising their voice and use threats).

When this happen, the children became much more likely to respond with the same negative attitude. This resulted in negative perception that both the caregivers and the children have toward one another;