Both parents and adolescents project their own values when perceiving each other’s values
(2018) In International Journal of Behavioral Development 42(1). p.106-115- Abstract
How parents and adolescents perceive each other’s life values is a key to understanding successful value transmission. In the value socializations literature, it has been proposed that parents’ values become internalized when children correctly perceive their parents’ values and decide to adopt them as their own. In the current study, we propose that interpersonal value perception of broader life values is characterized by a perceptual bias—projection—which propels adolescents to perceive their parents’ values to be similar to their own, and propels parents to perceive their adolescents’ values to be similar to theirs. This cross-sectional study examined 518 dyads of adolescents and their parents. Adolescents rated how important... (More)
How parents and adolescents perceive each other’s life values is a key to understanding successful value transmission. In the value socializations literature, it has been proposed that parents’ values become internalized when children correctly perceive their parents’ values and decide to adopt them as their own. In the current study, we propose that interpersonal value perception of broader life values is characterized by a perceptual bias—projection—which propels adolescents to perceive their parents’ values to be similar to their own, and propels parents to perceive their adolescents’ values to be similar to theirs. This cross-sectional study examined 518 dyads of adolescents and their parents. Adolescents rated how important different humanistic, environmental, and achievement values were to them, and how important these values were to their parents. Parents similarly rated how important these values were to them and to their adolescents. Using structural equation modeling, an interpersonal value perception model was constructed that estimated how much parents and adolescents projected their own values when perceiving each other’s values. The results supported the idea that both parents and adolescents substantially project their own values when perceiving the others’ values, and that they perceive the others’ values with low accuracy. We discuss our findings in light of value socialization in both research and practice.
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- Stattin, Håkan and Kim, Yunhwan LU
- publishing date
- 2018-01-01
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- adolescents, interpersonal perception, life values, parents, projection, value transmission, values
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- International Journal of Behavioral Development
- volume
- 42
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
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- scopus:85037738739
- ISSN
- 0165-0254
- DOI
- 10.1177/0165025417713728
- language
- English
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- no
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- Funding Information: Håkan Stattin received the ISSBD Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development at the 2016 biennial meetings in Vilnius, Lithuania. Award winners are invited to publish an article on the topic of their research. Invited award articles are reviewed, but the review process differs from that of unsolicited articles in that the goal is to improve the impact and appeal of the submission. The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was made possible by access to data from the Political Socialization Program, a longitudinal research program at YeS (Youth & Society) at Örebro University, Sweden. Responsible for the planning, implementation, and financing of the collection of data were professors Erik Amnå, Mats Ekström, Margaret Kerr and Håkan Stattin. The data collection was supported by grants from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Funding Information: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was made possible by access to data from the Political Socialization Program, a longitudinal research program at YeS (Youth & Society) at Örebro University, Sweden. Responsible for the planning, implementation, and financing of the collection of data were professors Erik Amnå, Mats Ekström, Margaret Kerr and Håkan Stattin. The data collection was supported by grants from Riksban-kens Jubileumsfond. Publisher Copyright: © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017.
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