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Shiffrin Quoted by Grazia Magazine

Professor of Psychology Holly Schiffrin was quoted by Grazia Magazine in an article titled “Psychologists agree: People born in the ’60s and ’70s aren’t resilient because of parenting, but because they learned to be alone.”

Research on the opposite style supports the idea. In a study of 297 American college students, Holly Schiffrin and colleagues at the University of Mary Washington found that “helicopter parenting” was linked to higher depression and lower life satisfaction, as well as lower feelings of autonomy and competence, as the study’s press release explains. Read the full article.