Mother and father socially desirable responding in nine countries: Two kinds of agreement and relations to parenting self-reportsShow others and affiliations
2015 (English)In: International Journal of Psychology, ISSN 0020-7594, E-ISSN 1464-066X, Vol. 50, no 3, p. 174-185Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We assessed 2 forms of agreement between mothers’ and fathers’ socially desirable responding in China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand and the United States (N = 1110 families). Mothers and fathers in all 9 countries reported socially desirable responding in the upper half of the distribution, and countries varied minimally (but China was higher than the cross-country grand mean and Sweden lower). Mothers and fathers did not differ in reported levels of socially desirable responding, and mothers’ and fathers’ socially desirable responding were largely uncorrelated. With one exception, mothers’ and fathers’ socially desirable responding were similarly correlated with self-perceptions of parenting, and correlations varied somewhat across countries. These findings are set in a discussion of socially desirable responding, cultural psychology and family systems.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2015. Vol. 50, no 3, p. 174-185
Keywords [en]
Socially desirable responding, Mothers, Fathers, Culture
National Category
Psychology
Research subject
SOCIAL SCIENCE, Psychology; Child and Youth studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-7121DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12084ISI: 000353971500002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84928749061OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-7121DiVA, id: diva2:770609
Note
Article first published online: 16 JUL 2014
2014-12-112014-12-112019-02-20Bibliographically approved