PART 1 Chapter 7 discusses the importance of adolescents developing moral reasoning, prosocial behavior, and moral values. Core values are central to a person’s identity. What has research found about parental influence and the family’s role? Discuss the relationships between religion and specific adolescent behaviors (See especially, p. 195-210). Based on the reading and your resources, how would you go about building moral values and prosocial behaviors into an adolescent?

Dolgin, K. (2018). The adolescent: Development, relationships, and culture. (14th ed). Allyn & Bacon

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This week we are discussing the development of morality in adolescents and the factors that affect the development. Parents play one of the biggest roles in moral development, Dolgin (2018) suggests that having a balance between trust, acceptance, and discipline, will foster the best chances of adolescents developing a good sense of morality. Dolgin suggests that being too strict can create an environment of fear and mistrust and although using an external punishment may get the child to behave when the threat of punishment isn’t present the child will misbehave. Developing Moral Values Project Essay Paper  In addition, having a too-relaxed parenting style can slow moral development due to a lack of confidence, direction, and motivation. Parents need strong moral development as children are constantly learning from those around them. Many people see this as a reason why at-risk youth struggle more in life than those raised in different environments. This is not to say if my parents did drugs, I have no choice but to do drugs. Children that grow up seeing adults steal, abuse or even alcohol abuse grow up thinking these behaviors are acceptable, and it isn’t until later in life when you are faced with the consequences of poor choices that you see the impact of that environment. Religion and spirituality also can have an impact on moral development and adolescent behavior, depending on the degree to which the adolescent is involved. As someone who grew up within a religious cult, I found the community’s strict, judgmental, and closed-mindedness to have lifelong negative effects on my life. Allowing a child to find religion or spirituality on their own is key to ensuring religion positively impacts the child’s life. Instilling morals and appropriate social behavior can be achieved by being open, accepting, and loving can create a thriving environment for adolescents. Demonstrating the behaviors to want to see in your child, punishing appropriately when bad behavior is done, and more importantly praising for achievements is my recipe for success in moral development.

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Reference:

Dolgin, K. (2018). The adolescent: Development, relationships, and culture. (14th ed). Allyn & Bacon

.peer 2  The importance of teaching adolescents the value of moral values and prosocial behaviors to conduct themselves properly in society. Parents place themselves in a position where their mission is to prepare adloescents for the future. It is important to emphasize that parents shape their children’s moral and prosocial behaviors not just by disciplining them when they do wrong, but also by reacting positively when they do right. For example, Hardy and Carlo (2010) as cited by Dolgin, 2018 have shown that adolescents’ expectations of the way that their parents will react to future prosocial actions have more impact on their behavior than do their anticipation of their parents’ reactions to inappropriate behavior. With what adolescents’ see everyday on television as well as social media. It becomes a issue where adolescents’ spend most of their time being influenced by these barriers that can effect their moral values in their adult life.

Inductions may be especially important in promoting the relevance or centrality of morality to the child’s or adolescent’s self-concept. Moral self-relevance or identity is defined in terms of the degree to which individuals perceive moral qualities (e.g., honest, fair, generous) as very  or centrally important to their sense of self or self-concept (Gibbs 2010; Hardy 2006; Moshman 2011 as cited by Patrick and Gibbs, 2012). Moral exemplars and other individuals high in moral identity are likely to evidence relatively high levels of prosocial behavior such as social reform (Colby and Damon 1993), community service (Aquino and Reed 2002; Hart et al. 2006; Pratt et al. 2003 as cited by Patrick and Gibbs, 2012), or reduced levels of antisocial behavior (Barriga et al. 2001). Research has indicated that the use of moral terms to describe and evaluate the self typically increases with the onset of adolescence (Damon and Hart 1988; Hardy and Carlo 2005; Power and Khmelkov 1998 as cited by Patrick and Gibbs, 2012).

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References:

Dolgin, K. (2018). The adolescent: Development, relationships, and culture. (14th ed). Allyn & Bacon.

Patrick, R. B., & Gibbs, J. C. (2012). Inductive Discipline, Parental Expressi

PART 3  In Chapter four the text states that the media’s images of “excessively slender women” encourages girls to dislike their own bodies and causes them to over-criticize themselves (Dolgin, 2018, p. 110). Do you agree or disagree?

How do body issues and attitudes shape the identity process? In what ways do you think the media influences body image? Do you think there is more pressure on the opposite of your gender, less, or the same?

Did the media personally influence you when you were an adolescent? Find at least one scholarly resource (in addition to your textbook) to back your point of view. Write a one-page response.