Laurence Steinberg

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model that integrates two traditions in socialization research, the study of specific parenting practices and the study on global parent characteristics, and propose that parenting style is best conceptualized as a context that moderates the influence of specific parent practices on the child.

TL;DR: This article proposes a framework for theory and research on risk-taking that is informed by developmental neuroscience, and finds that changes in the brain's cognitive control system - changes which improve individuals' capacity for self-regulation - occur across adolescence and young adulthood.

TL;DR: Taken together, these developments reinforce the emerging understanding of adolescence as a critical or sensitive period for a reorganization of regulatory systems, a reorganizations that is fraught with both risks and opportunities.

TL;DR: Adolescents whose parents are characterized as authoritarian score reasonably well on measures indexing obedience and conformity to the standards of adults but have relatively poorer self-conceptions than other youngsters, while adolescents from indulgent homes evidence a strong sense of self-confidence but report a higher frequency of substance abuse and school misconduct and are less engaged in school.

TL;DR: Current literature examining associations between components of the family context and children and adolescents' emotion regulation (ER) and a tripartite model of familial influence posited that children learn about ER through observational learning, modeling and social referencing.