Title:
Criando Niños: the associations among latino cultural values, acculturation, and parenting styles
Author:
Brenda Rojas Romagnoli
Thesis Advisor:
Beth A. Kotchick
Committee Member:
Mary Jo Coiro
Committee Member:
Heather Z. Lyons
Committee Member:
Frank D. Golom
Committee Member:
Stephen E. Fowl
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola Univeristy Maryland
Date Created:
2021
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
born digital
Abstract:
The increasing number of Latino families and children in the United States suggests there is a need to research parenting within this community (U.S. Census Bureau, 2016). Research on parenting styles is largely Euro-centric and based on four distinct parenting styles: authoritarian, permissive-indulgent, authoritative, and neglectful-indifferent (Baumrind, 1966; Maccoby and Martin, 1983). It is evident that Latino parents adopt different parenting styles (e.g., Guilamo-Ramos et al., 2007; Parke et al., 2004). Latino cultural values and the extent to which Latinos acculturate or adapt to the United States culture are factors that shape parenting (e.g., Andrés-Hyman, Ortiz, Añez, Paris, and Davidson, 2006). However, research is unclear as to whether acculturation moderates the relationship between Latino cultural values and parenting styles. The current study addressed this gap in the literature by examining acculturation level as a potential moderator of the relation between familismo, respeto, machismo, caballerismo, and marianismo cultural values and authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles. A sample of 120 first-generation or second-generation Latino or Hispanic parents of children between 3 and 18 years of age were recruited from community mental health centers and social media sites. They responded to measures of parenting style, familismo, respeto, machismo, caballerismo, and marianismo, and level of acculturation to the United States culture. Results supported the role of acculturation as a moderator between caballerismo and authoritative parenting style. Caballerismo, which encompasses chivalrous behaviors, was significantly and positively associated with authoritative parenting only when acculturation to the U.S. was low (e.g., Arciniega et al., 2008). Results did not support the role of acculturation as a moderator between familismo, respeto, machismo, and marianismo and parenting styles. The implications of these findings and possible directions for future research are addressed.
Subject:
Families
Subject:
Parenting
Subject:
Psychology
Subject:
Electronic dissertations
Subject:
Academic theses
Degree:
Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Level:
Doctor
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
RomagnoliBR-21
