Controlling parents create mean college kids
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 15:05
in Psychology & Sociology
College students whose parents lay on the guilt or try to manipulate them may translate feelings of stress into similar mean behavior with their own friends, a new study by a University of Vermont psychologist has found.The students' physical response to stress, which the researchers measured in a laboratory test, influenced the way they carry out that hostility -- either immediately and impulsively or in a cold, calculated way.