TY - JOUR
T1 - Overall and unique similarities between parents’ values and adolescent or emerging adult children’s values
AU - Barni, Daniela
AU - Alfieri, Sara
AU - Marta, Elena
AU - Rosnati, Rosa
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The transmission of values between generations has gained more and more research interest over the last few years. One important outcome of the process of value transmission is the degree of similarity between parents and their children, that may vary across child’s developmental stages. This study aimed to estimate the cultural stereotype effect on parent–child value similarity in adolescence and in emerging adulthood. Participants were 423 Italian fathers, mothers, and their adolescent (56.7%) or emerging adult (43.3%) children, who were asked to fill out the Portrait Values Questionnaire. Parent–child value similarity was small in size among families with adolescents, and significantly higher among families with emerging adults. Nevertheless, after removing stereotype effects, this difference disappeared, suggesting that the higher parent-emerging adult value similarity was to a great extent socially derived. Implications of this finding were discussed.
AB - The transmission of values between generations has gained more and more research interest over the last few years. One important outcome of the process of value transmission is the degree of similarity between parents and their children, that may vary across child’s developmental stages. This study aimed to estimate the cultural stereotype effect on parent–child value similarity in adolescence and in emerging adulthood. Participants were 423 Italian fathers, mothers, and their adolescent (56.7%) or emerging adult (43.3%) children, who were asked to fill out the Portrait Values Questionnaire. Parent–child value similarity was small in size among families with adolescents, and significantly higher among families with emerging adults. Nevertheless, after removing stereotype effects, this difference disappeared, suggesting that the higher parent-emerging adult value similarity was to a great extent socially derived. Implications of this finding were discussed.
KW - Adolescence
KW - Cultural stereotypes
KW - Emerging adulthood
KW - Parent-child value similarity
KW - Adolescence
KW - Cultural stereotypes
KW - Emerging adulthood
KW - Parent-child value similarity
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/47718
U2 - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.09.002
DO - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.09.002
M3 - Article
SN - 0140-1971
VL - 36
SP - 1135
EP - 1141
JO - Journal of Adolescence
JF - Journal of Adolescence
ER -