Our worldviews are shaped, whether for better or for worse, by our parents and our childhoods. After all, we spend the majority of our developing years with our parents, guardians, or other adult figures in our lives. We pick up on their customs, their ways of life, their personalities, their habits, good or bad. No matter what the circumstances of our childhoods were, we carry the history with ourselves through our own lives: disappointments, joys, accomplishments, sorrows alike. In a society where teenage depression is becoming more and more of a prevalent issue, parental empathy’s role in depression prevention is a question that begs to be asked. My research topic focuses on these memories and events which play such a heavy impact upon developing our personalities; it delves into parental figures and their empathy with their children. The art of parenting has been a struggle many have dealt with, and there is no easy answer. How do you find the one key to parenting when each child is so different? How much effort should one put in? How much of a friend should you be, compared to how much of a teaching role? My research question would be how ranges of empathetic parents affect their children in the future in terms of mental health, and the relationships they nurture between parental figures and their children.
Links to Use
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616734.2014.969749
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2167702615595001