Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Lewin and parenting

I really enjoyed this reading. I was originally interested in contextual effects on children's development and I used a part of Lewin's theory in my thesis before so it was interesting to deeply look at field theory.
Specifically, the idea that people's reality level of the psychological future can be formed through subjective perception was interesting. Also, the sentence that 'the psychological past and the future are simultaneous parts of the psychological field existing at a given time' was impressive because he looked at the present with people's perceptions on the past and the future. The past, the present, and the future seemed to be highly tied in his theory. I've been thought that the present is important for individual but the past and the future should be considered as context of their life.
In addition, when I think about 'parenting' which is my research interest, I could think that parents' perceptions on parenting would be more important than just considering normed parenting styles. There are numerous studies about the relationship between parenting styles and children's development. However, there is only few research on parents' perceptions on parenting which can subjectively affect children's development. I thought that parents and children's perceptions on their experiences or situations will be important for both parents and children's life.

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