Summary of the article Longitudinal Relations of Intrusive Parenting and Effortful Control to EgoResiliency During Early Childhood In this

article the author writes about how does the role of intrusive parents examine children behaviors when they are growing up or when they are grown ups. Intrusive control can be defined as a control that parents try to put on their children without any regards to childs feelings or needs. It is mostly motivated by parents own personal needs and desires. Intrusive control over a longer period of time can cause an affect in ER (ego-resiliency). Ego resiliency is a personality characteristics associated with psychological flexibility (Taylor, Eisenberg, Spinrad & Widaman). Psychological flexibility is considered as a component of healthy living and having a prosperous life. Effortful control is a temperamental characteristic that likely contributes to the early development of ego resiliency (Taylor, Eisenberg, Spinrad & Widaman). Certain aspects or process of EC includes forcefully inhibiting ideas to the child on things like games or other chores. For example if a child wants to play Xbox, EC means not letting them play or forcefully pushing them to not play. These activities can definitely have positive sides as also described in the paper, like children under EC conditions learn to adapt in new and stressful situations easily. In this article by the authors Eisenberg, Spinrad and Widaman there is a study that was conducted in a urban area at a participants of 18, 30 and 42 months of age, where mean parents education was some college and annual family income ranging from 45-60k. Mothers and non-parents caregivers were asked to rate children ER at a scale of 1 to 9(1-highly un descriptive and 9- highly descriptive). ( Taylor, Eisenberg, Spinrad & Widaman)

Some of the majors of the study such as talking of unpleasant things that has happened to him or her were not brought up to the 18 months old. I think this might have creates some sort of un-effectiveness on the data? I pose this question to the author? During the process mothers and other caregivers rated the EC of the children (1 to 7). 1 being they never use the effortful control or in other words saying they are usually very sensitive and 7 saying they always have to use effortful control to make their child perform certain task or activity. 3 different task for the experiment were mothers were asked to rate EC were during free play task, cleaning task and teaching task The results of this study concluded that there exist a level of relations between effortful control or EC, Ego-resiliency or ER and Intrusive parenting. The results suggest that EC usually mediates intrusive parenting or in other words, effortful parenting can cause both parents and children to be intrusive and stubborn. The other part of findings suggests that parenting can also contribute to the fluctuation of EC and ER. Intrusive parents are negatively related to ER at all levels (Taylor, Eisenberg, Spinrad & Widaman). The study has certain limitations. It was conducted at just one urban area, which might have bias and conservative views of parenting. It is not global. These sorts of study if made global will only be able to produce the most effective results. Nonetheless this study has one of the best research methods carried out to the students and the general public. The concepts of effortful control and intrusive parenting are very much relevant in present America and even more in the poor and developing countries.

Reference: Taylor, Z., Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T., & Widaman, K. F. (n.d.). Longitudinal relations of intrusive parenting and effortful control to ego-resiliency during early childhood. Retrieved from https://my.rochester.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=/web apps/blackboard/execute/courseMain?course_id=_64893_1