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A Discussion of the Two Basic Styles of Social Interaction and the ways they can affect the Development and Confirmative Behavior in Children From a wide variety of possible styles of social interaction that might inevitably play a role in the development of independence and confirmative behavior in children, Subbotsky (1976) choose two styles, which he considered to be particularly relevant to the development of independent and confirmative behavior. The first being an authoritarian style the …showed first 75 words of 2513 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2513 total…substantial degree, responsible for the development of either independent or conforming behavior. In the classroom a democratic style of interaction fosters not only independent behavior but also seems to heighten children's spontaneous creativity. It appears however that children may benefit most from a mixture of authoritarian and democratic styles of social interaction, because the authoritarian styles seems to reduce some of the negative consequences that arise from applying the democratic style of social interaction alone.