Parenting styles and Individualistic and Collectivistic Values (Considering Transition Mechanism or Inter-generation Non-transition)

Autor: Asma Zahmatkesh, Azam Farah Bidjari
Jazyk: angličtina
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Zdroj: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. :2431-2437
ISSN: 1877-0428
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.10.475
Popis: The aim of this study is considering the relation between the amount of individualistic and collectivistic values in three generations of daughters, mothers and grandmothers in Kerman (a city in south of Iran) and their educational styles and the relation between educational styles with the amount of individualistic and collectivistic values in children. The case study in this research consists of 120 girls and women above 16 years old that have been chosen by available sampling. Tools of research in this consideration are demographic, individualistic, collectivistic and parental connection questionnaires. The data have been analyzed by the aid of descriptive and inferential statistics (T test, analysis of one way variance test and Pierson coefficient). Although the results are not meaningful statistically they indicate an increase in individualistic values and reduction of collectivistic values from the first generation to the third generation in families. Also, difference in individualistic values in educated people as well as people with different orders of birth is significant. In this research, 94.4% of the cases were brought up with authoritative style and 5.6% were brought up with authoritarian styles there is a significant difference between the amount of tolerance and parental control in different generations was not observed.
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