Intergenerational Patterns of Values and Autonomy Expectations in Cultures of Relatedness and Separateness

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ID2316144
AutoresSunita Mahtani Stewart (0000-0002-0642-781X, University of Hong Kong, autor correspondente), Michael Harris Bond (0000-0001-5409-9614, Chinese University of Hong Kong), Osvelia Deeds (Vermont College of Norwich University), Siu Fung Chung (0000-0001-6640-5893, University of Hong Kong)
Ano1999
Volume30
Fascículo5
Páginas575-593
Data de publicação1999-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0221 • E-ISSN: 1552-5422
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022022199030005002
OpenAlexW2116613618
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas33
Referências citadas18

This study assessed the assumption that socialization practices relevant to value priorities and autonomy expectations differ between collectivist and individualist cultures. The authors investigated value priorities and autonomy expectations in 58 pairs of Caucasian and 66 pairs of Asian teenagers and their mothers. This pairing enabled them to address similarities on values and autonomy expectations within families, which has not been done previously. Although Asian and Caucasian teenagers showed similarities on many value priorities, Asian participants' autonomy expectations were delayed compared to those of their Caucasian counterparts. Mother-teenager autonomy expectations were correlated in Asian but not in Caucasian families. Unlike Asian mothers, Caucasian mothers endorsing high value priority for Openness to Change supported earlier autonomy expectations for their teenagers. Parental expectations unpackaged the effect of culture on teenagers' autonomy expectations. These findings support models that predict persistent family interdependence despite adoption of many individualist values in modernizing collectivist cultures

Autonomy · Collectivism · Developmental psychology · Individualism · Openness to experience · Political science · Socialization · Value (mathematics · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology