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Amy-Week 2

In the second week, I started to analyze the data collected from the questionnaires distributed to adult participants by putting the scores they rated for different statements to according dimensions, such as Connection Dimension and Physical Coercion Dimension, and calculating Authoritative, Authoritarian and Permissive Parenting Score accordingly. Since parenting styles mainly include authoritative (high discipline and high nurturance), authoritarian (high discipline and low nurturance), permissive (low discipline and high nurturance), and neglectful (low discipline and low nurturance) styles, we were able to categorize the parenting styles of different groups of parent(s) through the calculations by looking at which score was the highest. Then for the rest of the week, I worked on “coding” the behaviors of the participants. Specifically, I first looked at the transcripts that I created and counted the number of times when parents’ teaching and intrusion and children’s compliance and noncompliance were involved. Going further, I played the videotapes, observing participants’ behaviors and listening to, for example, the vocal tones of parents and children. Then I counted the number of times when parents and children showed positive, neutral, and negative affect (feeling/emotion connection) perspectively.

During the second week, I also attended lab meetings of both Empathy Development Lab and Tomasello Lab. For the lab meetings, we listened to the presentations of the Senior Theses Students on their own projects and offered them advice to help them prepare for Duke Vertical Integration Program (VIP), which is something similar to EXP Science Night, in the upcoming week. Moreover, we heard a brief presentation on a new study about whether young children would conform more strictly to the rules they create on their own or those they create with others. After finishing helping with Celia’s project, I will probably participate in these amazing projects as well.
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