The relation between parental attitudes toward child rearing and child behavior.

Zunich, Michael

doi:10.1037/h0043346

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“…A second approach designed to establish the concurrent validity of PCRAs has been to examine the associations between parental attitude scores and child behavior. Most studies report little or no relation between maternal attitudes and assessments of child behavior or personality (e.g., G. F. Brody, 1969;Zunich, 1962) or parent ratings of the child (Leton, 1958;Robinson & Anderson, 1983), although there is some conflicting evidence (cf. Barton, Dielman, & Cattell, 1977;Read, 1945).…”

Section: Criterion Validitymentioning

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Parental attitudes toward child rearing: Instruments, issues, and implications.

Holden¹,

Edwards²

1989

Psychological Bulletin

348

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Describes historical use of surveys to assess parents' global child-rearing attitudes and reviews the structure and content of the 83 parent attitude questionnaires published from 1899 through 1986 designed to quantify variations in parental attitudes and, presumably, parental behavior. Inspection of the surveys' psychometric properties reveals marginally acceptable levels of reliability and questionable validity. One suspected source of problems with the instruments, the use of vague and ambiguous items, was confirmed in a study of mothers' reactions to one survey. In addition to instrument errors, conceptual problems associated with assumptions about the structure of parental attitudes and how attitudes relate to parental behavior are discussed. Alternative methods for assessing parental social cognitions and individual differences in parents are advocated.

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Section: Criterion Validitymentioning

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“…Most studies report little or no relation between maternal attitudes and assessments of child behavior or personality (e.g., G. F. Brody, 1969; Zunich, 1962) or parent ratings of the child (Leton, 1958; Robinson & Anderson, 1983), although there is some conflicting evidence (cf. Barton, Dielman, & Cattell, 1977; Read, 1945).…”

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Parental attitudes toward child rearing: Instruments, issues, and implications.

Holden¹,

Edwards²

1989

Psychological Bulletin

348

226

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“…The most important factors which tend to vitiate the validity of the questionnaire studies are (1) that what is measured here are present attitudes, with unknown historical continuity, and (2) that little is known about the relationship of expressed attitudes to actual behavior even concurrently, much less retrospectively. What is known (99, 38) suggests that these relationships are at best tenuous, and more likely non‐existent.…”

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The Patient's Family: Research Methods

Rabkin

1965

Family Process

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“…Behrens (1954) reports a positive relationship between the mother's general orientation and the child's personality. Zunich (1962), on the other hand, found no relationship between parental atti tudes and the child's behavior. Similarly, Sewell, Mussen and Harris (1955) found that parental attitudes manifested toward the child in child training were highly inconsistent.…”

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Adolescent familization, socialization, situational structure, and high school age marriage

Holland

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From what you have observed, would you say that your mother is: (Check one) Completely happy in her marriage. Generally happy and satisfied. îlore unhappy than happy, Very unhappy and dissatisfied, 19. From what you have observed, would you say that your father is: (Check one) Completely happy in his marriage. Generally happy and satisfied. More unhappy than happy. Very unhappy and dissatisfied. 18, From what you have observed, would you say that your mother is: (Check one Completely happy in her marriage. Generally happy and satisfied. More unhappy than happy. Very unhappy and dissatisfied. 19, From what you have observed, would you say that your father is; (Check one Completely happy in his marriage. Generally happy and satisfied. More unhappy than happy. Very unhappy and dissatisfied.

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The relation between parental attitudes toward child rearing and child behavior.

Cited by 5 publications

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Parental attitudes toward child rearing: Instruments, issues, and implications.

Parental attitudes toward child rearing: Instruments, issues, and implications.

The Patient's Family: Research Methods

Adolescent familization, socialization, situational structure, and high school age marriage

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