Parental Style and Consumer Socialization of Children

Carlson, Les; Grossbart, Sanford

doi:10.1086/209147

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“…The parental style results derive from the interviews and from the parental style scale [41]. Consistent with most prior studies which have shown the universal application of parental styles in Western and non-Western cultures [22,42], we found existence of similar parental styles in France and India with different parental practices.…”

Section: Cross National Differences In Parental Style and Ecological supporting

confidence: 88%

“…Parental styles, such as authoritative and permissive, have been found in individualistic countries, where self-expression, egalitarian relationships and independence are valued. In contrast, the remaining two parental styles, authoritarian and neglectful, which foster the highest degree of dependence and obedience, are more consistent with collectivist countries [36,41,42].…”

Section: Parental Style and Cross-cultural Contextsmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…The interview guides used in France and India covered similar topics: (1) the adolescent-mother relationship, including parental style; (2) environmental knowledge; (3) adopted environmentally friendly behaviors and impact of these behaviors on mothers; (4) influence strategies used by adolescents; and (5) effectiveness of these influence strategies. At the end of each interview, Carlson and Grossbart's [41] parental style scale was administered to the 24 French and Indian mothers. A back-translation method was used to translate the interview guide from French to English, to Hindi and back to English, then French, in order to ensure the idiomatic equivalence of the two versions [57].…”

Section: Interview Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How National Culture and Parental Style Affect the Process of Adolescents’ Ecological Resocialization

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Singh

2015

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Abstract:The role of adolescents as influencers on their families' environmental behavior is potentially a catalyst for change towards increasing eco-friendly actions. In this paper, the authors report on a cross-cultural study of ecological resocialization in France and India. Using in-depth dyadic interviews, they investigated parental styles, cultural attributes and extent of adolescents' influence over parental eco-behavior. The study reveals that ecological resocialization across countries differs substantially, according to a combination of national cultural values, parental style and influence strategy. French teens exhibit a greater impact than Indian teens on their parents' eco-behavior and use bilateral influence strategies. In India, not all mothers engage in ecological resocialization, but those who do are susceptible to unilateral strategies. The role of environmental knowledge, and the context and effectiveness of each kind of strategy is discussed. The findings have implications for how public policy officials and agencies can encourage adolescents as key resocialization agents to influence their parents' pro-environmental consumption by using the most adapted influence strategy across cultures.

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Section: Cross National Differences In Parental Style and Ecological supporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Parental Style and Cross-cultural Contextsmentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: Interview Processmentioning

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How National Culture and Parental Style Affect the Process of Adolescents’ Ecological Resocialization

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2015

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“…Research in this area has provided significant insight into the development of children's cognitive and social capacities, decision making skills, and comprehension of marketing activities, particularly advertising (Brucks, Armstrong and Goldberg 1988;Chaplin and John 2005;Gregan-Paxton and John 1997;John 1999;Moore and Lutz 2000;Peracchio 1992;Roedder 1981). It has informed our understanding of parent-child influence in household purchase decisions and the impacts of parenting style on children's learning (Beatty and Talpade 1994;Carlson and Grossbart 1988). And it has shown that childhood consumer learning has long term effects.…”

Section: Consumer Socialization: On the Road To Childhood Obesitymentioning

confidence: 99%

All in the Family? Parental Roles in the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity

2016

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Childhood obesity is a serious global health challenge. Families and consumption are at the nexus of the problem, as childhood weight issues depend significantly on family-related influences (genetic predispositions, physical activities, and household food consumption practices). This article focuses on how a family socializes a child toward or away from obesity. It advances a family consumer socialization framework to characterize key elements and processes.Biological predispositions, parent/family inputs, elements of child development, parent-child interactions, and intergenerational transfer are all major contributors to weight status and life course potentials. Time is also a crucial component, here represented in two forms --linear and cyclical. Drawing on extensive research from other disciplines and related consumer research, five "Foundational Properties" are distilled, representing fundamental tenets underpinning the family's role in this problem. Each property is then used to chart promising opportunities for consumer researchers and others interested in advancing knowledge on this pressing concern.

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“…He affirms the child's current behavior, separating right from wrong, and also sets standards for the child's future behavior. Carlson and Grossbart (1988) used survey data on the mothers of school going children (kindergarten through sixth grade) and divided them into groups based on the parenting style starting from neglecting all the way to rigidly controlling. They found evidence for authoritative parents granting less consumption autonomy to the child, greater communication with the child about consumption related issues, higher consumer socialization goals and greater monitoring of children's consumption vis-a-vis both permissive and authoritarian parents.…”

Section: A Review Of Empirical Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%