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

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  • Jennifer E. Lansford

    (Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA)

  • Susannah Zietz

    (Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA)

  • Suha M. Al-Hassan

    (Department of Special Education, Hashemite University, Zarqa 13110, Jordan)

  • Dario Bacchini

    (Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80127 Naples, Italy)

  • Marc H. Bornstein

    (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20810, USA
    UNICEF, New York, NY 10001, USA
    Institute for Fiscal Studies, London WC2R 2PP, UK)

  • Lei Chang

    (Department of Psychology, University of Macau, Macau 999078, China)

  • Kirby Deater-Deckard

    (Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002, USA)

  • Laura Di Giunta

    (Department of Psychology, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 00017 Rome, Italy)

  • Kenneth A. Dodge

    (Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA)

  • Sevtap Gurdal

    (Centre for Child and Youth Studies, University West, 46131 Trollhättan, Sweden)

  • Qin Liu

    (Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China)

  • Qian Long

    (Global Health Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan 215300, China)

  • Paul Oburu

    (Department of Psychology, Maseno University, Maseno 879-6112, Kenya)

  • Concetta Pastorelli

    (Department of Psychology, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 00017 Rome, Italy)

  • Ann T. Skinner

    (Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA)

  • Emma Sorbring

    (Centre for Child and Youth Studies, University West, 46131 Trollhättan, Sweden)

  • Sombat Tapanya

    (Peace Culture Foundation, Chiang Mai 50000, Thailand)

  • Laurence Steinberg

    (Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19019, USA
    Department of Psychology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 22230, Saudi Arabia)

  • Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado

    (Department of Psychology, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Medellín 050001, Colombia)

  • Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong

    (Department of Psychology, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50000, Thailand)

  • Liane Peña Alampay

    (Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City 1008, Philippines)

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.

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  • Jennifer E. Lansford & Susannah Zietz & Suha M. Al-Hassan & Dario Bacchini & Marc H. Bornstein & Lei Chang & Kirby Deater-Deckard & Laura Di Giunta & Kenneth A. Dodge & Sevtap Gurdal & Qin Liu & Qian , 2021. "Culture and Social Change in Mothers’ and Fathers’ Individualism, Collectivism and Parenting Attitudes," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-20, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:10:y:2021:i:12:p:459-:d:691604
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