Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: We examined whether cultural values, conformity and parenting behaviours were related to child adjustment in middle childhood in the United States. White, Black and Latino mothers (n = 273), fathers (n = 182) and their children (n = 272) reported on parental individualism and collectivism, conformity values, parental warmth, monitoring, family obligation expectations, and child internalising and externalising behaviours. Mean differences, bivariate correlations and multiple regression analyses were performed on variables of interest. Collectivism in mothers and fathers was associated with family obligation expectations and parental warmth. Fathers with higher conformity values had higher expectations of children's family obligations. Child internalising and externalising behaviours were greater when Latino families subscribed to individualistic values. These results are discussed in the context of cultural values, protective and promotive factors of behaviour, and race/ethnicity in the United States.
DOI: 10.1002/ijop.13214
Institutions: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Duke University, King Abdulaziz University, Temple University, United Nations Children's Fund, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, University of Helsinki, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4400256141