Cross-cultural effects of parent warmth and control on aggression and rule-breaking from ages 8 to 13.

Publisher: Wiley-Liss Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 7502265 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1098-2337 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0096140X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Aggress Behav Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: <2005-> : Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Liss
Original Publication: New York, Liss.

Aggression* ; Cross-Cultural Comparison*; Parent-Child Relations/*ethnology ; Parenting/*ethnology ; Parents/*psychology; Adolescent ; Adult ; Child ; China/ethnology ; Colombia/ethnology ; Female ; Humans ; Italy/ethnology ; Jordan/ethnology ; Kenya/ethnology ; Male ; Parenting/psychology ; Philippines/ethnology ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Sweden/ethnology ; Thailand/ethnology ; United States/ethnology

We investigated whether bidirectional associations between parental warmth and behavioral control and child aggression and rule-breaking behavior emerged in 12 cultural groups. Study participants included 1,298 children (M = 8.29 years, standard deviation [SD] = 0.66, 51% girls) from Shanghai, China (n = 121); Medellín, Colombia (n = 108); Naples (n = 100) and Rome (n = 103), Italy; Zarqa, Jordan (n = 114); Kisumu, Kenya (n = 100); Manila, Philippines (n = 120); Trollhättan/Vänersborg, Sweden (n = 101); Chiang Mai, Thailand (n = 120); and Durham, NC, United States (n = 111 White, n = 103 Black, n = 97 Latino) followed over 5 years (i.e., ages 8-13). Warmth and control were measured using the Parental Acceptance-Rejection/Control Questionnaire, child aggression and rule-breaking were measured using the Achenbach System of Empirically-Based Assessment. Multiple-group structural equation modeling was conducted. Associations between parent warmth and subsequent rule-breaking behavior were found to be more common across ontogeny and demonstrate greater variability across different cultures than associations between warmth and subsequent aggressive behavior. In contrast, the evocative effects of child aggressive behavior on subsequent parent warmth and behavioral control were more common, especially before age 10, than those of rule-breaking behavior. Considering the type of externalizing behavior, developmental time point, and cultural context is essential to understanding how parenting and child behavior reciprocally affect one another.
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R03 TW008141 United States TW FIC NIH HHS; R01 HD054805 United States HD NICHD NIH HHS

Keywords: aggression; cultural differences; parent behavioral control; parent warmth; rule-breaking

Date Created: 20200407 Date Completed: 20201008 Latest Revision: 20210702

20240105

PMC7274879

10.1002/ab.21892

32249458