Mother and father socially desirable responding in nine countries: Two kinds of agreement and relations to parenting self‐reports |
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| Authors: | Marc H Bornstein Diane L Putnick Jennifer E Lansford Concetta Pastorelli Ann T Skinner Emma Sorbring Sombat Tapanya Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado Arnaldo Zelli Liane Peña Alampay Suha M Al‐Hassan Dario Bacchini Anna Silvia Bombi Lei Chang Kirby Deater‐Deckard Laura Di Giunta Kenneth A Dodge Patrick S Malone Paul Oburu |
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| Institution: | 1. Child and Family Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, USA;2. Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA;3. Faculty of Psychology, Rome University ‘La Sapienza’, Italy;4. Department of Psychology, University West, Trollh?ttan, Sweden;5. Department of Psychiatry, Chiang Mai University, Thailand;6. Consultorio Psicológico Popular, Universidad San Buenaventura, Colombia;7. Department of Education Sciences, University of Rome ‘Foro Italico’, Italy;8. Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon, Philippines;9. Queen Rania Faculty for Childhood, Hashemite University, Jordan;10. Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Italy;11. Department of Educational Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China;12. Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA;13. Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA;14. Department of Psychology, Maseno University, Kenya |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | Socially desirable responding Mothers Fathers Culture |
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