(when a parent picks up an object and hits them with it) make them into a violent or angry person? I know someone who has been abused and he is a modertly mellow person but becomes very violent when his temper goes off, especially when he's drunk...He also seems to get hurt and angry a lot easier when friends mess around...would this come from his abuse?
2007-02-26 12:29:44 · 4 answers · asked by mma 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
The laws of cause and effect are much too complex to make a straight yes or no answer to this Q accurate. But certainly if parents model violence and anger in their own behaviour, children are apt to learn that violence and anger are appropriate ways of being. Such parenting increases the likelihood of violence and anger in the child. It is AN influence, but not necessarily decisive, it depends also on the child's personality and other aspects of who they are and what they want from life ~ everything from grandparents and peers to their relationship, if any, with God.
2007-02-26 19:58:45 · answer #1 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am sure he is sensitive and emotional because of the abuse he went through. Most of them time someone who endures abuse, eventually becomes an abuser, for example, drug abuser, alcohol abuser, physical and verbal abuser, because they grew up in the enviroment and endured it. But there are some that don't become abusive but still lash out from the abuse they went through every now and again, like you said when he is drunk, or when his friends mess with him.
2007-02-26 22:28:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Remember, he also inherited the traits from one or the other of his parents that allowed them to abuse him. Since the effects of the genes are greater than zero, we do not know if his behavior is inherited genetically, totally environmental, both, or neither.
2007-02-26 20:35:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a decent hypothesis to explore.
2007-02-26 20:40:15 · answer #4 · answered by OTTO 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋