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Mother and father socially desirable responding in nine countries: Two kinds of agreement and relations to parenting self‐reports
Author(s) -
Bornstein Marc H.,
Putnick Diane L.,
Lansford Jennifer E.,
Pastorelli Concetta,
Skinner Ann T.,
Sorbring Emma,
Tapanya Sombat,
Uribe Tirado Liliana Maria,
Zelli Arnaldo,
Alampay Liane Peña,
AlHassan Suha M.,
Bacchini Dario,
Bombi Anna Silvia,
Chang Lei,
DeaterDeckard Kirby,
Di Giunta Laura,
Dodge Kenneth A.,
Malone Patrick S.,
Oburu Paul
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1002/ijop.12084
Subject(s) - psychology , human development (humanity) , child health , child development , human services , child and adolescent psychiatry , public health , library science , psychiatry , family medicine , political science , law , medicine , nursing , computer science
We assessed 2 forms of agreement between mothers' and fathers' socially desirable responding in China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand and the United States ( N = 1110 families). Mothers and fathers in all 9 countries reported socially desirable responding in the upper half of the distribution, and countries varied minimally (but China was higher than the cross‐country grand mean and Sweden lower). Mothers and fathers did not differ in reported levels of socially desirable responding, and mothers' and fathers' socially desirable responding were largely uncorrelated. With one exception, mothers' and fathers' socially desirable responding were similarly correlated with self‐perceptions of parenting, and correlations varied somewhat across countries. These findings are set in a discussion of socially desirable responding, cultural psychology and family systems.