A hard role can make children antisocial, according to a study

As far as children are concerned, the quarrel between nature and culture always takes place. And when it comes to knowing how sociable children are, people often like to think that everything depends on the nature of that child. But a lot of that can have something to do with parents. According to a new study, severe parenting practices can make children antisocial.

In the past, parenting styles were linked to other behavioral changes in children, which makes sense. In 2016, researchers documented the influence of parental stress on children's behavioral problems. In addition, in 2016, a study demonstrated the impact of parents on the development of children's emotional development, documented by experts at Vanderbilt University. We can often think that parenting is about changing diapers and covering the basics, but, as noted by Vanderbilt's experts, it goes far beyond that.

The insensitive traits to the absence of emotion (UC) in children are a phenomenon to which researchers are starting to become more interested. These features include limited empathy and lack of guilt, as reported by the Association for Psychological Science. One of the most important questions in the examination of ruthless and non-emotional traits is to determine whether these traits are solely due to the genetic makeup or environment in which one finds himself. child.

Posted in Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry of the Child and Adolescentduring the study, the main objective of the researchers was to "determine whether parental hardness and warmth were related to child aggression or UC traits taking into account genetically modified effects".

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and Michigan State University worked with 227 pairs of identical twins, totaling 454 children, according to Science Daily. For this study, the researchers analyzed the slight parental differences experienced by each twin. In doing so, they would be able to determine if these differences predicted the likelihood of antisocial behavior.

The children participating in the study were between 6 and 11 years old, as reported in Science Daily. Parents completed 50 environmental questionnaires at home, including determining parents' degree of hardness and warmth by asking them to rate 24 surveys, according to Science Daily.

The results were quite interesting. According to the abstract of the study, the differences in parental hardness were related to the differences in aggressiveness and features of the CU. The study abstract indicated that "differences in parental warmth were solely related to differences in CU traits, so that the twin receiving warmer parenting had lower CU traits."

Rebecca Waller, an assistant professor in Penn's Department of Psychology, said, according to Science Daily:

"Some of the early works on insensitive and non-emotional traits have focused on their biological bases, such as genetics and the brain, arguing that these traits develop regardless of what happens in the environment of the body. child, that parenting does not have the environment could prevent a child likely to have more serious antisocial behavior. "

This study does not exclude that genetic factors can have an influence. But this helps to further highlight how the family environment has an impact on children.