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Authoritarians, the Next Generation: Values and Bullying Among Adolescent Children of Authoritarian Fathers
Author(s) -
Knafo Ariel
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
analyses of social issues and public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1530-2415
pISSN - 1529-7489
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2003.00026.x
Subject(s) - authoritarianism , psychology , offspring , conformity , universalism , developmental psychology , power (physics) , social psychology , democracy , political science , pregnancy , biology , law , physics , quantum mechanics , politics , genetics
The author comments on an article by Altemeyer (2003) . The implications of authoritarianism to social phenomena are extended to the values and bullying behaviors of adolescent children of authoritarian fathers. Eighty‐two authoritarian and 252 nonauthoritarian Israeli fathers participated with their adolescent children. Authoritarian fathers expected their children to give high importance to power, tradition, and conformity values and lower‐than‐average importance to benevolence, universalism, and self‐direction values. In comparison with offspring of nonauthoritarian fathers, offspring of authoritarian fathers gave more importance to power values and less importance to universalism values. Offspring of authoritarian fathers also tended to associate more with bully friends. The combination of high adolescent power values and their fathers' authoritarian parenting was associated with the highest degrees of bullying by adolescents. The social implications of the findings are discussed.