Cady Heron: A Psychological Analysis

Summary Cady Heron is a sixteen-year-old girl who has been homeschooled for most of life and lived in Africa for four years with her parents who was zoologists until her mom get a new job, so they had to move. On her first week of school, Cady meet Damien and Janis who befriend her, and the next day, Cady skip class with Janis and Damien. As they sit out on a field Janis points out the plastics, Karen, Gretchen, and Regina and Janis also make Cady a map of the lunch room showing where each cliques sits at during lunch. Later on, during lunch Cady is invite by Regina to sit with them for now on and, starts to hangs with the plastics more, shop with them, and see a book called the burn book which has pictures and nasty comments of every girl
According to Life Development, parenting style is defined is “the characteristic strategies that parents use to manage children’s behavior” (p.192). Parenting style originally had three different type which are The Authoritarian Parenting Style, The Permissive Parenting Style, and The Authoritative Parenting Style and then fourth style was made by Eleanor Maccoby and John Martin which is named The Uninvolved Parenting Style. In the movie, Regina’s mother does not care about what her daughter does, she let her daughter talk to her however she wants, and she allow her daughter to engage in risky behaviors as far as drinking, and having sex. Permissive parenting style describe as a parent who has much nurturance for the child, but does not have no good communication with the child, no type of control, or no maturity demand over the child (p.192). Therefore, I would say her parenting style is a permissive parenting style because she has no control over her daughter, no good communication skill with her daughter, but she does care about her daughter in a way. Throughout the movie, Regina always do what she wants, tell her mother what to do, but after Regina hit by the bus, her mother right by her side taking care of her and making sure she looks beautiful for the spring fling dance. In one scene of the movie,
I would add a little more background story to each of the main characters to see or make a theory of my own to figure out why they act the way they do. For example, why does Regina’s mother let her do what she and tell he what do, is it because she scared of her daughter, or for other reasons that has happen in the past. My question about my concept on social status is can a person still be popular, but have the emotions of an aggression/withdrawn person? I have no other questions about the other concepts I have pick because I believe I understand the other concepts I have pick for this