title: The role of parents in children's psychological development.
abstract: This article reviews the three major ways parents influence children: direct interaction, identification, and transmission of family stories. This essay summarizes some of the relevant empiric data in support of this claim and describes the operation of other mechanisms that also contribute to the child's development.
authors.affiliation: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kagan
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012380:Role