TY - JOUR
T1 - Culture and social change in mothers’ and fathers’ individualism, collectivism and parenting attitudes
AU - Lansford, Jennifer E.
AU - Zietz, Susannah
AU - Al-Hassan, Suha M.
AU - Bacchini, Dario
AU - Bornstein, Marc H.
AU - Chang, Lei
AU - Deater-Deckard, Kirby
AU - Di Giunta, Laura
AU - Dodge, Kenneth A.
AU - Gurdal, Sevtap
AU - Liu, Qin
AU - Long, Qian
AU - Oburu, Paul
AU - Pastorelli, Concetta
AU - Skinner, Ann T.
AU - Sorbring, Emma
AU - Tapanya, Sombat
AU - Steinberg, Laurence
AU - Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe
AU - Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean
AU - Alampay, Liane Peña
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant RO1-HD054805 and Fogarty International Center grant RO3-TW008141. This research also was supported by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Grant P30 DA023026, the Intramural Research Program of the NIH/NICHD, USA, and an International Research Fellowship at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, UK, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 695300-HKADeC-ERC-2015-AdG). The APC was waived.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Authoritarian
KW - Collectivism
KW - Culture
KW - Historical perspective
KW - Individualism
KW - International
KW - Parenting attitudes
KW - Social change
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U2 - 10.3390/socsci10120459
DO - 10.3390/socsci10120459
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121760762
VL - 10
JO - Social Sciences
JF - Social Sciences
SN - 2076-0760
IS - 12
M1 - 459
ER -