The Relationship between Ethnicity, SES, and Education on Parental Beliefs of Manipulation, Contempt, and Privacy

[摘要] The purpose of this study is to assess whether parental emotion beliefs include the dimensions of manipulation, contempt, and privacy and to examine the degree to which ethnic differences exist for those dimensions. Because reported ethnic differences are often due to other variables such as socio-economic status, individual as well as combined contributions of ethnicity, occupational status, and education are assessed in their relation to parental emotion beliefs. Participants included 1,108 African American, European American, and Lumbee American Indian parents of at least one child 4- to 10-years of age. Parents' beliefs about children's use of emotion as manipulation, parents' expression of contempt toward their children, and children's need for emotional privacy did emerge as distinct belief sets and ethnic differences were found. Although education did account for significant amounts of variance in parental beliefs and accounted for the ethnic difference between African American and European American parents for Manipulation, ethnicity was typically a significant predictor above and beyond what could be accounted for by the other predictors. This indicates that there is something unique to ethnicity such as a common set of values, beliefs, or behaviors. Additionally, the largest amounts of variance were overlapping in the three predictor variables, suggesting that ethnicity, occupational status, and education cannot be thought of separately when investigating psychological variables such as emotional beliefs.

[发布机构] University:North Carolina State University

[效力级别] Ethnicity

[关键词] SES;Ethnicity;Contempt;Manipulation;Education;Parents;Children;Emotion;Privacy