Diana Baumrind | |
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 Diana Blumberg Baumrindc. 1965 | |
| Born | (1927-08-23)August 23, 1927 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | September 13, 2018(2018-09-13) (aged 91)[1] Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Hunter College University of California, Berkeley |
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| Known for | Parenting styles |
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| Doctoral advisor | Hubert Coffey |
| Influences | Theodor Adorno Else Frenkel-Brunswik Egon Brunswik David Krech |
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| Discipline | Developmental psychologist |
Diana Blumberg Baumrind (August 23, 1927 – September 13, 2018) was an Americanclinical anddevelopmental psychologist known for her research onparenting styles and for hercritique of theuse of deception in psychological research.
Baumrind was born into a Jewish community inNew York City, the first of two daughters of Hyman and Mollie Blumberg. She completed her B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy atHunter College in 1948, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.[2] Her doctoral dissertation was entitled "Some personality and situational determinants of behaviour in a discussion group".[3]
After being awarded her doctorate she served as a staff psychologist atCowell Memorial Hospital inBerkeley. She was also director of twoU. S. Public Health Service projects and a consultant on aCalifornia state project. From 1958-1960 she also had a private practice in Berkeley.[4]
She was adevelopmental psychologist at the Institute of Human Development,University of California, Berkeley.[5] She was known for her research onparenting styles[6][7] and for her critique ofdeception in psychological research, especiallyStanley Milgram's controversial experiment.[8][9][10]
Baumrind defined three parenting styles:
Baumrind studied the effects ofcorporal punishment on children, and concluded that mild spanking, in the context of an authoritative (not authoritarian) parenting style, is unlikely to have a significant detrimental effect, if one is careful to control for other variables such as socioeconomic status.[11] She observed that previous studies demonstrating a correlation between corporal punishment and bad outcomes failed to control for variables such as socioeconomic status. Low-income families are more likely to employ corporal punishment compared with affluent families. Children from low-income neighborhoods are more likely to commit violent crimes compared with children from affluent neighborhoods. But Baumrind believed that when appropriate controls are made for family income and other independent variables, mild corporal punishment per se does not increase the likelihood of bad outcomes.[12] This assertion has in turn attracted criticism and counterpoints from other researchers in the same publication, for example: Whether harmful or not, there is still no consistent evidence of beneficial effects.[13]
She was influenced in her studies byTheodor Adorno,Else Frenkel-Brunswik,Egon Brunswik, andDavid Krech[2]
Baumrind died in September 2018 following a car accident.[1]
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