Mothers', fathers' and children's perceptions of parents' expectations about children's family obligations in nine countries |
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| Authors: | Jennifer E Lansford Jennifer Godwin Liane Peña Alampay Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado Arnaldo Zelli Suha M Al‐Hassan Dario Bacchini Anna Silvia Bombi Marc H Bornstein Lei Chang Kirby Deater‐Deckard Laura Di Giunta Kenneth A Dodge Patrick S Malone Paul Oburu Concetta Pastorelli Ann T Skinner Emma Sorbring Sombat Tapanya |
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| Institution: | 1. Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA;2. Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines;3. Consultorio Psicológico Popular, Universidad San Buenaventura, Medellín, Colombia;4. Department of Education Sciences, University of Rome “Foro Italico”, Rome, Italy;5. Queen Rania Faculty for Childhood, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan, and Health and Special Education Division, Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, UAE;6. Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy;7. Faculty of Psychology, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy;8. Child and Family Research Program in Developmental Neuroscience, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA;9. Department of Psychological Studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China;10. Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA;11. Department of Education Psychology, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya;12. Department of Psychology, University West, Trollh?ttan, Sweden;13. Department of Psychiatry, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand |
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| Abstract: | Children's family obligations involve assistance and respect that children are expected to provide to immediate and extended family members and reflect beliefs related to family life that may differ across cultural groups. Mothers, fathers and children (N = 1432 families) in 13 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand and United States) reported on their expectations regarding children's family obligations and parenting attitudes and behaviours. Within families, mothers and fathers had more concordant expectations regarding children's family obligations than did parents and children. Parenting behaviours that were warmer, less neglectful and more controlling as well as parenting attitudes that were more authoritarian were related to higher expectations regarding children's family obligations between families within cultures as well as between cultures. These international findings advance understanding of children's family obligations by contextualising them both within families and across a number of diverse cultural groups in 9 countries. |
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| Keywords: | Culture Family obligations Parent– child relationships Parental attitudes |
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