Journal article
Mother, Father, or Parent? College Students' Intensive Parenting Attitudes Differ by Referent
Journal of child and family studies, v 23(6), pp 1073-1080
01 Aug 2014
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Abstract
Although intensive parenting is considered a dominant ideology of child-rearing, the tenets have only recently been operationalized. The Intensive Parenting Attitudes Questionnaire (IPAQ) was designed to assess the prescriptive norms of how people should parent and includes scales assessing the ideas that parenting is fulfilling, but challenging, and should be child-centered, involve intellectual stimulation, and is best done by women. The original IPAQ refers to parents, rather than mothers or fathers specifically, and was developed and validated on both women who were and were not mothers. The current investigation was designed to determine (a) whether women hold stronger intensive parenting beliefs than men and (b) whether answers on the IPAQ would vary depending on whether the referent was a mother, a father, or a parent. Participants included 322 male and female college students who were randomly assigned to receive one of three versions of the IPAQ referring either to mother, father, or parent. A main effect for sex indicated that female students held more intensive parenting beliefs than male students. A main effect for version indicated that referring to fathers led to more intensive attitudes than referring to mothers on the Child-Centered and Fulfillment scales, but parenting was rated as more Challenging than fathering. Whether the emphasis on father involvement found in the present investigation will translate into actual paternal involvement once participants have children is discussed.
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- Title
- Mother, Father, or Parent? College Students' Intensive Parenting Attitudes Differ by Referent
- Creators
- Holly H. Schiffrin - University of Mary WashingtonMiriam Liss - University of Mary WashingtonKatherine Geary - University of Mary WashingtonHaley Miles-McLean - University of Mary WashingtonTaryn Tashner - University of Mary WashingtonCharlotte Hagerman - University of Mary WashingtonKathryn Rizzo - University of Mary Washington
- Publication Details
- Journal of child and family studies, v 23(6), pp 1073-1080
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 8
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- WELL Center
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000339114900011
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84903903404
- Other Identifier
- 991021862314704721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Family Studies
- Psychiatry
- Psychology, Developmental