Intergenerational Transmission of Social Adaptation:The Mediating Role of Child-Rearing Gender-Role Attitude in Different Family Gender Types
Objective:This study examines the influence of parental social adaptation on children's social adaptation under different family gender types,as well as the mediating role of child-rearing gender-role attitude and parenting styles between the two.Methods:A questionnaire survey was conducted by using the Social Adaptation Scale and the Parental Child-rearing Gender-role Attitude Scale on 1,749 adolescents and their parents.Results:(1)The social adaptation levels of all parents were higher than that of their children.As for the child-rearing gender-role attitude,the both parents family scored d highest among the three types of families.(2)Parental child-rearing gender-role attitude partially mediated the re-lationship between parental social adaptation and children's social adaptation.(3)The predictive effect of parental social adaptation on parental child-rearing gender-role attitude in opposite-sex single parent families was greater than that in the same-sex and two parent families.The predictive effect of parental social adaptation on children social adaptation in same-sex single parent families was greater than that in the two parent families.Conclusion:Parental gender role attitudes play a mediating role between parental social adaptation and children's social adaptation,and the mediation model varies across different family gender types.
Family gender typesSocial adaptationChild-rearing gender-role attitudeIntergenerational transmission