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Title: Intensive parenting of mothers in 11 countries differing in individualism, income inequality, and social mobility
Authors: Lubiewska, K
Żegleń, M
Lun, VMC
Park, J
Runge, R
Muller, J
Visser, M
Adair, L
Sabriani Borualogo, I
Metin Orta, I
Sümer, N
Głogowska, K
Abudoush, A
Cheung, HY
Baker, J
Asamoah Russell, N
Al-Ja`afreh, S
Sümer, N
Yousef, R
Ҫetin, D
Tașkesen, N
Bostancı, E
Dönnecke, N
van der Kaap-Deeder, J
Keywords: intensive parenting;helicopter parenting;socio-economic status;individualism;middle childhood;cross-cultural psychology;close relationships
Issue Date: 11-Jun-2025
Publisher: Elsevier
Citation: Lubiewska, K. et al. (2025) 'Intensive parenting of mothers in 11 countries differing in individualism, income inequality, and social mobility', Personality and Individual Differences, 246, 113237, pp. 1 - 9. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113237.
Abstract: Although intensive parenting has been found to be mostly detrimental for both children and parents, less is known about the correlates and sources of this type of parenting. This study aimed to examine associations between mother's primary involvement in caregiving and intensive parenting, as well as their potential sources, thereby focusing on: family social status, characteristics of the national economy (income inequality and social mobility) and culture (individualism-collectivism) in 11 culturally diverse countries. Participants were 2535 mothers of children aged between 6 and 10. Mothers reported on their intensive parenting behaviors, entailing both supportive and undermining aspects of meeting their child's needs, as well as their level of involvement in daily caregiving tasks and the subjective family social status. Hypotheses were tested controlling for country level response style. Results revealed that: mothers who were more often the primary caregiver across daily tasks used more intensive parenting behaviors; high social status mothers were using less child need undermining yet more supportive intensive parenting behaviors, and less frequently served as the primary caregiver for daily tasks; the undermining intensive parenting behaviors related positively to country-level individualism and income inequality, whereas relations with social mobility were mixed.
Description: Data availability: Data will be made available on request.
Supplementary data are available online at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886925001990#s0150 .
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/31284
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2025.113237
ISSN: 0191-8869
Other Identifiers: ORCiD: Katarzyna Lubiewska https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4319-7953
ORCiD: Lora Adair https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8965-3221
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