Class and Conformity: Thirty Years of Adult Child‐rearing Values in the U.S

Alwin, Duane F.; Tufiș, Paula A.

doi:10.1111/socf.12685

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“…Future studies may benefit from further revealing the complexity inherent within the tested associations by considering various alternative risk factors and also resilience moderators (Masarik et al, 2016). Last, according to the work by Duane F. Alwin and others (e.g., Alwin, 2001 ; Alwin & Tufiș, 2021 ; Park & Lau, 2016 ), SES also greatly shapes parents’ child-rearing values and thus is associated with parenting priorities concerning child socialization (e.g., obedience versus autonomy). As such, in addition to the currently tested authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles, parental childrearing values could be one of the critical, alternative mechanisms that are also implicated in the association between family SES and child psychopathology.…”

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Family socio-economic status and Chinese Preschoolers’ anxious symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of parental investment, parenting style, home quarantine length, and regional pandemic risk

Zhang

Cao

Lin

et al. 2022

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

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Using data from 16,161 families with target child of 3-6 years old in Hubei, China during COVID-19 pandemic, this study examined the association between family socioeconomic status (SES) and preschoolers’ anxious symptoms (PAS). Parental investment and parenting style were tested as mediators for this association. Home quarantine length was tested as a moderator for this direct association and for the associations between family SES and parenting processes, whereas regional pandemic risk was tested as a moderator for the entire model. Results support the utility of Family Stress and Family Investment Models in a Chinese context by identifying unique roles of parental investment and parenting style in mediating the link between family SES and PAS. Quarantine length moderated the link between family SES and authoritarian parenting: Strength of this negative association was stronger for families with longer quarantine than for those with shorter quarantine. Further, family SES was negatively associated with PAS through its negative association with authoritarian parenting, regardless of the quarantine length. Model comparison analyses between high-risk region versus low/medium-risk region groups indicated that the pandemic risk for living regions did not alter any pathway in the model. Such findings inform the designs of targeted interventions to help families cope with pandemic-related challenges. Promoting parental investment and adaptive patenting style represents an avenue to diminish consequences of family economic hardship for young children's mental health, regardless of macrolevel pandemic risk. Interventions should attend to home quarantine duration, as it contextualizes the links among family SES, parenting, and child well-being.

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Family socio-economic status and Chinese Preschoolers’ anxious symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of parental investment, parenting style, home quarantine length, and regional pandemic risk

Zhang

Cao

Lin

et al. 2022

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

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“…Contemporary parents tend to have childrearing values that favor autonomy over obedience, and this represents a continuation of social change in values and norms occurring during the previous century (Alwin and Tufis , 2021). The present study makes empirical and theoretical contributions to understanding how such values affect family dynamics and parent-child relationships during the 21st century.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…Several general predictions can be made on using existing theory and research. Findings that parental attitudes favor autonomy over obedience (Alwin and Tufis , 2021) suggest that contemporary parents, particularly in individualistic cultures, may tolerate, if not encourage, children's opposition to their instructions under some circumstances. In addition, parents may have competing goals when confronted with resistance from children besides compliance.…”

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“…For example, Miller (1990) in the European context and Greven (1990) in the North American context documented the religious roots of authoritarian childrearing beliefs and practices and argued that unquestioning obedience and coercive parental control persisted as child-rearing norms prior to the first world war. However, Alwin (1988); (Alwin and Tufis , 2021), using data from the United States and Europe, found that there were consistent decreasing trends in parental values for obedience and increasing trends for autonomy as childrearing goals throughout the 20th century and into the present. Despite this trend for parents to value autonomy, Alwin and Tufis , (2021) found relatively greater preferences for obedience among conservative religious groups and cultural groups such as Latinos and Blacks, and greater preference for autonomy and self-direction for parents with higher education, and for females compared to males.…”

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Mothers’ Perspectives on Resistance and Defiance in Middle Childhood: Promoting Autonomy and Social Skill

2021

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This study explored mothers’ perceptions of their children’s resistance to their requests and defiance of parental authority during middle childhood and early adolescence. We were interested in parental perceptions of change in resistance, their interpretations of the meaning of resistance, and parental responses to these behaviors. Forty Canadian mothers of children 9–13 years of age participated for one week in a study focused on parents’ experiences of children’s resistance and opposition. Procedures consisted of a qualitative analysis of mothers’ reports from a five-day event diary and a 1 h semi-structured interview. Mothers reported developmental changes in the quantity and quality of children’s resistance to parental requests and expectations. Most mothers reported increasing displays of defiance and direct and indirect expressions of attitude but also noted changes in the skill with which children expressed resistance. Mothers interpreted children’s resistance as annoying but normal expressions of children’s developing autonomy. Mothers supported children’s right to expression of agency through resistance but attempted to channel children’s resistance toward socially competent expressions of assertiveness. The findings have implications for a relational perspective on autonomy-supportive parenting and parents’ goals for children’s developing social competence in the 21st century.

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“…2012). Studies also show a link between religious identification and the valuation of obedience versus autonomy in children (Alwin and Tufis 2021; Ellison and Sherkat 1993b; Starks and Robinson 2005), and these childrearing values have long been tied to stratification outcomes (Kohn 1989). A well‐developed body of literature has linked fundamentalist Christian beliefs and connections to exclusivist sectarian Protestant denominations to a variety of negative stratification outcomes (cf.…”

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Race, Gender, and the Relationship Between Religious Factors and Verbal Ability: An Intersectional Approach

Sherkat¹

2022

Scientific Study of Religion

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The negative relationship between religiosity and cognitive ability is well documented though most research on the connection between religion and cognitive factors has largely ignored how social positions like race and gender may inform the association. This paper explores how race and gender intersect with the association between religious factors and verbal ability. Using data from the General Social Surveys, I examine racial differences in the impact of religious identification, religious participation, and beliefs about the Bible on verbal ability. The analyses show that the association between religious factors and verbal ability varies significantly across racial groups, and points to some gender differences in the association between religious factors and verbal ability by race. The findings highlight the importance of an intersectional approach and suggest that psychological theorizing about the relationships between religion and cognitive ability is underdeveloped.

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Class and Conformity: Thirty Years of Adult Child‐rearing Values in the U.S

Cited by 11 publications

References 51 publications

Family socio-economic status and Chinese Preschoolers’ anxious symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of parental investment, parenting style, home quarantine length, and regional pandemic risk

Family socio-economic status and Chinese Preschoolers’ anxious symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of parental investment, parenting style, home quarantine length, and regional pandemic risk

Mothers’ Perspectives on Resistance and Defiance in Middle Childhood: Promoting Autonomy and Social Skill

Race, Gender, and the Relationship Between Religious Factors and Verbal Ability: An Intersectional Approach

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