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Agreement in mother and father acceptance-rejection, warmth, and hostility/rejection/neglect of children across nine countries

Diane L Putnick Marc H Bornstein Jennifer E Lansford Lei Chang Kirby Deater-Deckard Laura Di Giunta Sevtap Gurdal Kenneth A Dodge Patrick S Malone Paul O Oburu Concetta Pastorelli Ann T 24 PAGES (11451 WORDS) Sociology Article/Essay
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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.
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