The Authoritarian Personality

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    communication skills, and maturity. Incorporating these areas, she posted four types of parenting styles: authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and neglectful. Authoritarian Parenting In this style of parenting, children are given arbitrary rules and expected to give unquestioning obedience. Failure to follow instructions will result in severe or unnecessary punishment. Authoritarian parents tend to fail to explain the reasons for the rules, causing the child to see the rules as useless and

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    years. In Hong Kong, the style is closer to authoritarian parenting in most of the family, a similar situation happened in other Asian countries such as China, Japan, and Singapore. The rationale behind this phenomenon are the traditional values and past experiences of parents. Most parents are trying to apply the same approach that they have faced before and also they are aiming at letting their children comply with them completely. Although authoritarian parenting might have its logic to a certain

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    types of personalities and experiences to be taken into account when doing so. Because in hypnotherapy we are working with the clients subconscious mind we need to make sure that it is as accessible as is possible, and there are a number of ways of doing this. Hadley and Staudacher write that, “The language of an induction is designed to communicate opinions, thoughts, and feelings. It focuses your attention on yourself,

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    to her. She lives her life freely, “borrowing” cars and experiencing everything that life has to offer. Maude sees every day as an adventure, and is just there to enjoy the ride. This type of personality itself has a specific name in psychology, and it is known as a Type B personality. Type B personalities are known for being easygoing and relaxed, as well as less prone to stress in uncomfortable situations (Myers 402). This leads to them being less angry overall, as well as generally optimistic

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    much as possible, and are in need of guidance from their leader. There are two definite strengths of authoritarian leadership: efficiency and productiveness. These both impact the team positively, as team members will feel satisfied - having completed a task/accomplished a goal successfully. Generally, the more efficient and productive a team, the more likely they are to be successful. Authoritarian leaders are proficient at motivating others. This leadership style allows for fast decisions which can

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    To better understand the different aspects of authoritarian leadership, you need to examine leaders who’ve shown these qualities and characteristics. When it comes to authoritarian framework, the world of politics is naturally the first place to look. But not all authoritarian leaders have been dictators; as the above has shown, the leadership style can sometimes be a force for positive change. Below are five examples of authoritarian leaders, venturing a bit deeper into how they used the style to

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    neglectful, permissive, and authoritarian. In which each parenting style has a different effect on each individual. While one child may succeed with a certain parenting style another may not. Authoritative parenting incorporates high responsiveness and highly demanding. In contrary neglectful parenting lacks responsiveness and is uninvolved in the child’s life. Likewise, neglectful parenting is permissive parenting in which has low demands. Furthermore, the authoritarian parenting follows a more military-like

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    parties and ruling presidents within an authoritarian system" An authoritarian system can be defined as a principle of blind obedience and acceptance to authority, as opposed to individual freedom and belief. Authoritarian rulers often lack constitutional responsibility towards citizens and choose to exercise absolute control without consideration to the existing bodies of law. Authoritarianism is considered a contested term as they are various forms of authoritarian rule, namely ruling parties and ruling

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    experiences, lets them express their own ideas and thoughts, in their own words without influence or pressure from the psychologists. Interviews are used to collect information regarding people’s views on a wide variety of topics, from childhood to personality as we can see from Damons study. As you can see interview and questionnaires are very useful when studying behaviour, however were it is not possible to study this through the means of experiments, possibly because of ethical reasons therefore

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    Although developmental psychologists have a difficult time pinpointing a cause and effect link between direct actions of parents to their child’s psychological development, it is apparent that the way a child is raised can correlate with their personalities. The type of parenting style Maureen’s parents presented could be the source to her own problems. Maureen’s dad, George, had worked in the military and after release transitioned to a policeman. When enlisted in the military soldiers, like George

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