Culture and Social Change in Mothers’ and Fathers’ Individualism, Collectivism and Parenting Attitudes

Lansford, Jennifer and Zietz, Susannah and Al-Hassan, Suha and Bacchini, Dario and Bornstein, Marc and Chang, Lei and Deater-Deckard, Kirby and Di Giunta, Laura and Dodge, Kenneth and Gurdal, Sevtap and Liu, Qin and Long, Qian and Oburu, Paul and Pastorelli, Concetta and Skinner, Ann and Sorbring, Emma and Tapanya, Sombat and Steinberg, Laurence and Uribe Tirado, Liliana and Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean and Alampay, Liane (2021) Culture and Social Change in Mothers’ and Fathers’ Individualism, Collectivism and Parenting Attitudes. Social Sciences, 10 (12). p. 459. ISSN 2076-0760

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Abstract

Cultures and families are not static over time but evolve in response to social transformations, such as changing gender roles, urbanization, globalization, and technology uptake. Historically, individualism and collectivism have been widely used heuristics guiding cross-cultural comparisons, yet these orientations may evolve over time, and individuals within cultures and cultures themselves can have both individualist and collectivist orientations. Historical shifts in parents’ attitudes also have occurred within families in several cultures. As a way of understanding mothers’ and fathers’ individualism, collectivism, and parenting attitudes at this point in history, we examined parents in nine countries that varied widely in country-level individualism rankings. Data included mothers’ and fathers’ reports (N = 1338 families) at three time points in China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. More variance was accounted for by within-culture than between-culture factors for parents’ individualism, collectivism, progressive parenting attitudes, and authoritarian parenting attitudes, which were predicted by a range of sociodemographic factors that were largely similar for mothers and fathers and across cultural groups. Social changes from the 20th to the 21st century may have contributed to some of the similarities between mothers and fathers and across the nine countries.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: authoritarian; collectivism; culture; historical perspective; individualism; international; parenting attitudes; social change
Subjects: Oalibrary Press > Social Sciences and Humanities
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 10 Nov 2022 05:38
Last Modified: 28 Dec 2023 04:43
URI: http://asian.go4publish.com/id/eprint/100

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