Culture and social change in mothers' and fathers' individualism, collectivism and parenting attitudesShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Social Sciences, E-ISSN 2076-0760, Vol. 10, no 12, article id 459Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
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.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI , 2021. Vol. 10, no 12, article id 459
Keywords [en]
authoritarian; collectivism; culture; historical perspective; individualism; international; parenting attitudes; social change
National Category
Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology) Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Research subject
Child and Youth studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-18009DOI: 10.3390/socsci10120459ISI: 000738371200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85121760762OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-18009DiVA, id: diva2:1625931
Funder
EU, Horizon 2020, 695300-HKADeC-ERC-2015-AdG
Note
This research was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of ChildHealth and Human Development grant RO1-HD054805 and Fogarty International Center grantRO3-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)
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