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Do parents and adolescents differ in their perceptions of rearing styles? Analysis of the EMBU versions for parents and adolescents
Author(s) -
ALUJA ANTON,
BARRIO VICTORIA DEL,
GARCÍA LUIS F.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2006.00497.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , perception , personality , scale (ratio) , parenting styles , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
In the present study, memories of rearing styles between parents, mother and father, and their son/daughters were explored through the EMBU versions for parents (EMBU‐P) and adolescents (EMBU‐A). Results show that parents differ in three of the four scales of the EMBU: Emotional Warmth, Control Attempts, and Favoring Subject. Also, mothers score higher on Emotional Warmth, and Control Attempts, but less on Favoring Subject. When parents and adolescents were compared in the common items to both versions, no substantial differences were found, except for the Favoring Subject scale. The sex of the adolescent seems not to play a relevant role in the observed differences. A revision of specialized literature suggested that differences in the fathers’ and mothers’ perceptions of their rearing styles could be related to differences in personality and marital satisfaction. These hypothetical relationships should be investigated in a parallel study.