It is generally assumed that political ideology is to a large extent transmitted from parents to children (Adorno et al 1950; Altemeyer 1988). Indeed, young adults’ and adolescents’ levels of RWA Altemeyer 1988 Duriez et al 2008 Peterson Duncan, 1999 and SDO Duriez et al 2008 have been found to correlate with their parents’ responses on the correspondent measures. However, the degree of similarity among family members is not entirely due to their mutual unique influence, but also deriving from the belonging to the same cultural context and previous studies did not separate this specific influence from the common culture effect Estimating the degree of the resemblance between parents and children in their level of authoritarianism and sexism, while separating the dyadic influence from the culture effect, is thus important to understand how parents affect their children’s development of political attitudes. Research questions 1. How similar are mother father, child mother and child father pairs in terms of authoritarian attitudes and ambivalent sexism? 2. Is this resemblance due only to their belonging to the same culture or there is also a dyadic unique influence? 3. Does child parent attitudes transmission change as a function of parents’ attitude extremity, level of agreement between mother and father and child’s identification with parents?
The intergenerational transmission of authoritarianism dimensions: Exploring child parent resemblance in a sample of students
Margherita Guidetti
;Andrea Bobbio;Luciana Carraro;Luigi Castelli
2019
Abstract
It is generally assumed that political ideology is to a large extent transmitted from parents to children (Adorno et al 1950; Altemeyer 1988). Indeed, young adults’ and adolescents’ levels of RWA Altemeyer 1988 Duriez et al 2008 Peterson Duncan, 1999 and SDO Duriez et al 2008 have been found to correlate with their parents’ responses on the correspondent measures. However, the degree of similarity among family members is not entirely due to their mutual unique influence, but also deriving from the belonging to the same cultural context and previous studies did not separate this specific influence from the common culture effect Estimating the degree of the resemblance between parents and children in their level of authoritarianism and sexism, while separating the dyadic influence from the culture effect, is thus important to understand how parents affect their children’s development of political attitudes. Research questions 1. How similar are mother father, child mother and child father pairs in terms of authoritarian attitudes and ambivalent sexism? 2. Is this resemblance due only to their belonging to the same culture or there is also a dyadic unique influence? 3. Does child parent attitudes transmission change as a function of parents’ attitude extremity, level of agreement between mother and father and child’s identification with parents?
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