Abstract
Parents play an important role in the mental development of a child. In our previous work, we addressed how a narcissistic parent influences a child (online/offline) when (s)he is happy and admires the child. Now, we address the influence of a parent who is not so much pleased, and may curse the child for being the reason for his or her unhappiness. An abusive relationship with a parent can also cause trauma and poor mental health of the child. We also address how certain coping behaviors can help the child cope with such a situation. Therefore, the aim of the study is threefold. We present an adaptive agent model of a child, while incorporating the concept of mirroring through social contagion, the avoidance behaviors from a child, and the effects of regulation strategies to cope with stressful situations.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-20 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Brain informatics |
| Volume | 8 |
| Early online date | 2 Mar 2021 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The first author is grateful to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of the Punjab for providing me opportunities for my research career. This is an extended version of our paper ?Are we Producing Narci-nials? An Adaptive Agent Model for Parental Influence? [12] that appeared in the Brain Informatics conference in 2020, and is invited for Brain Informatics journal?BRAI. The new content (roughly 140% extra) of this article is an extension of the model with a wider perspective. Initially, we discussed only the online and offline behaviors of a child who was admired by a narcissistic parent. Here it is extended to incorporate how an unpleasant parent can influence a child, along with how coping mechanisms can help to heal him or her.
Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Funding
The first author is grateful to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of the Punjab for providing me opportunities for my research career. This is an extended version of our paper ?Are we Producing Narci-nials? An Adaptive Agent Model for Parental Influence? [12] that appeared in the Brain Informatics conference in 2020, and is invited for Brain Informatics journal?BRAI. The new content (roughly 140% extra) of this article is an extension of the model with a wider perspective. Initially, we discussed only the online and offline behaviors of a child who was admired by a narcissistic parent. Here it is extended to incorporate how an unpleasant parent can influence a child, along with how coping mechanisms can help to heal him or her.
Keywords
- Adaptive agent
- Narcissism
- Parental influence
- Reified architecture
- Social contagion
