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Agreement in mother and father acceptance-rejection, warmth, and hostility/rejection/neglect of children across nine countries
Psychology Department Faculty Publications
  • Diane L Putnick, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Marc H Bornstein, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Jennifer E Lansford, Duke University
  • Lei Chang
  • Kirby Deater-Deckard, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Laura Di Giunta, University of Rome La Sapienza
  • Sevtap Gurdal, University West
  • Kenneth A Dodge, Duke University
  • Patrick S Malone, University of South Carolina
  • Paul Oburu, Maseno University
  • Concetta Pastorelli, University of Rome La Sapienza
  • Ann T Skinner, Duke University
  • Emma Sorbring, University West
  • Sombat Tapanya, Chiang Mai University
  • Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Universidad San Buenaventura
  • Arnaldo Zelli, University of Rome
  • Liane Peña Alampay, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Suha M Al-Hassan, Hashemite University
  • Dario Bacchini, Second University of Naples
  • Anna Silvia Bombi, University of Rome La Sapienza
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-3-2012
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Abstract

The authors assessed whether mothers’ and fathers’ self-reports of acceptance-rejection, warmth, and hostility/rejection/neglect (HRN) of their preadolescent children differ cross-nationally and relative to the gender of the parent and child in 10 communities in 9 countries, including China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States (N = 998 families). Mothers and fathers in all countries reported a high degree of acceptance and warmth, and a low degree of HRN, but countries also varied. Mothers reported greater acceptance of children than fathers in China, Italy, Sweden, and the United States, and these effects were accounted for by greater self-reported warmth in mothers than in fathers in China, Italy, the Philippines, Sweden, and Thailand and less HRN in mothers than in fathers in Sweden. Fathers reported greater warmth than mothers in Kenya. Mother and father acceptance-rejection were moderately correlated. Relative levels of mother and father acceptance and rejection appear to be country specific.

Citation Information
Putnick, D. L., Bornstein, M. H., Lansford, J. E., Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., … Bombi, A. S. (2012). Agreement in Mother and Father Acceptance-Rejection, Warmth, and Hostility/Rejection/ Neglect of Children Across Nine Countries. Cross-Cultural Research, 46(3), 191–223. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069397112440931