Cross‐Cultural Associations of Four Parenting Behaviors With Child Flourishing: Examining Cultural Specificity and Commonality in Cultural Normativeness and Intergenerational Transmission Processes. Issue 6 (22nd July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rothenberg, W. Andrew; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al‐Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei; Deater‐Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Liu, Qin; Long, Qian; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Steinberg, Laurence
• Is Part Of: Child development. Volume 92:Issue 6(2021)
• Page Start: e1138
• Page End: e1153
• Publication Date: 2021-07-22
• Subjects: Child development -- Periodicals; Child psychology -- Periodicals; Child Development -- Periodicals; Child Development; Pediatrics -- Periodicals; Pedicatrics; 305.231
• DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13634
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0009-3920

Abstract

Abstract : Families from nine countries ( N = 1, 338) were interviewed annually seven times ( M age child = 7–15) to test specificity and commonality in parenting behaviors associated with child flourishing and moderation of associations by normativeness of parenting. Participants included 1, 338 children ( M = 8.59 years, SD = 0.68, range = 7–11 years; 50% girls), their mothers ( N = 1, 283, M = 37.04 years, SD = 6.51, range = 19–70 years), and their fathers ( N = 1, 170, M = 40.19 years, SD = 6.75, range = 22–76 years) at Wave 1 of 7 annual waves collected between 2008 and 2017. Families were recruited from 12 ethnocultural groups in nine countries including: Shanghai, China ( n = 123); Medellín, Colombia ( n = 108); Naples ( n = 102) and Rome ( n = 111), Italy; Zarqa, Jordan ( n = 114); Kisumu, Kenya ( n = 100); Manila, Philippines ( n = 120); Trollhättan & Vänersborg, Sweden ( n = 129); Chiang Mai, Thailand ( n = 120); and Durham, NC, United States ( n = 110 White, n = 102 Black, n = 99 Latinx). Intergenerational parenting (parenting passed from Generation 1 to Generation 2) demonstrated specificity. Children from cultures with above‐average G2 parent warmth experienced the most benefit from the intergenerational transmission of warmth, whereas children from cultures with below‐average G2 hostility, neglect, and rejection were best protected from deleterious intergenerational effects of parenting behaviors on flourishing. Single‐generation parenting (Generation 2 parenting directly associated with Generation 3 flourishing) demonstrated commonality. Parent warmth promoted, and parent hostility, neglect, and rejection impeded the development of child flourishing largely regardless of parenting norms.