Divna Haslam, Chrislyne Poniman, Ania Filus, Agnes Sumargi, Lia Boediman
Research has shown that the congruence of parenting styles with cultural values, rather than parenting styles alone, impacts child adjustment. This study examined if parents’ cultural values moderate the relationships between parenting styles and child outcomes across both an individualist culture (Australia) and a collectivist culture (Indonesia). Three hundred and eighty-seven parents of 2–10-year-old children from both countries reported their parenting styles, the importance of the collectivistic values (security, conformity, and tradition), and their child's emotion regulation and behavioral problems. In both countries, authoritative parenting was associated with higher child emotion regulation and lower levels of behavioral problems, and authoritarian parenting was associated with lower child emotion regulation and higher levels of behavioral problems. Although cultural values did not moderate the relationship between authoritarian parenting and child adjustment, in both countries greater importance placed on tradition attenuated the positive effect of authoritative parenting on child outcomes. © 2020, © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; Parenting and Family Support Centre, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Research, University of Southern California, LA, United States; Faculty of Psychology, Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia; Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia