FAMILY PARENTING STYLES VERSUS APPROVAL OF AGGRESSION IN SOCIAL LIFE IN YOUNG ADULTS
Journal Title: Educational Psychology - Year 2012, Vol 44, Issue 1
Abstract
Summary: The research aimed to determine whether and in what way parental styles used in childhood by their parents conditioned young people’s attitude to aggression and violence in social life. Empirical material was collected in a sample of university students (98 people, including 59 women and 39 men aged 18-25). The participants judged which parenting styles their parents had used in their childhood (retrospective information) and described to what degree they approved of various forms of aggression and of the reasons for which aggression could be used. The findings prove that (a) more girls than boys experienced a democratic parenting style; (b) compared to young women, young men judge their parents as autocratic significantly more frequently. As far as approval of aggression is concerned, it was determined that compared to women, men approved of extreme forms of aggression (torturing, killing the perpetrator) to a significantly larger extent and allowed the use of these forms of violence in non-standard circumstances (as a punishment for an offense, as an expression of anger) to a larger extent. The analysis of the relationship between parenting styles experienced in childhood and approval of aggression and violence in young adults showed that the “democratic” and “permissive and loving” (high emotional warmth) parenting styles were connected with a significantly lower approval of aggression in social life, while the “permissive and neglectful” parenting style was connected to a more approving attitude toward aggression and violence. In the light of these findings, it can be assumed that understanding, care and positive emotions experienced in family socialization are important conditions for successful psychosocial adaptation in youth.
Authors and Affiliations
Monika Dominiak-Kochanek, Adam Frączek, Karolina Konopka
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