par Terache, Julie 
;Lamprianidou, Elli-Anastasia ;De Spiegeleer, Frederik;Soenens, Bart;Van Petegem, Stijn Julien
Référence European Association of Social Psychology General Meeting 2023 (Krakow, Poland)
Publication Non publié, 2023-06-30
;Lamprianidou, Elli-Anastasia ;De Spiegeleer, Frederik;Soenens, Bart;Van Petegem, Stijn Julien Référence European Association of Social Psychology General Meeting 2023 (Krakow, Poland)
Publication Non publié, 2023-06-30
Communication à un colloque
| Résumé : | Social expectations about how to be a good parent tend to be significantly higher for mothers than for fathers, and prescribe to women to be highly involved mothers and prioritize family life while maintaining an active professional life (e.g., Meeussen et al., 2016). This pressure to be a perfect mother is positively related not only to parental burnout and stress, but also to a stronger prevention focus (Meeussen & Van Laar, 2018). The pressure of preventing risk and protecting children from any possible threat seems to be especially high on mothers (Henwood et al., 2008; Rizzo et al., 2013), since they are usually portrayed as inherently better in caregiving (Hays, 1996; Liss, 2013). As a result, mothers tend to engage in more overprotective styles of parenting (e.g., Fingerman et al., 2012). In a context where threatening crisis multiplied (i.e., economic, health, climate), we conducted a large correlational study (total N = 923) examining the links between threat perception, social pressure to be a good parent and gender essentialist beliefs, on overprotective parenting. Results showed that perceived threat positively correlated with parental overprotection for both genders, although the effect was stronger for mothers. This did not interact with perceived social pressure nor essentialist beliefs, although both predicted fathers’ overprotection, while essentialism predicted mothers’ overprotection. |
