par Lamprianidou, Elli-Anastasia ;Eira Nunes, Cindy ;Gaunt, Ruth;Venard, Gaëlle;Van Petegem, Stijn Julien
Référence Yearly conference of the Dutch Social Psychology Association (ASPO) (Groningen, The Netherlands)
Publication Non publié, 2024-12-12
Communication à un colloque
Résumé : This contribution focuses on the interplay between parents’ endorsement of gender essentialism and their parental involvement. Gender essentialism proposes that men and women are biologically distinct and allegedly suited for different societal roles, including parental roles. In our first study, we investigated the relationship between parents’ gender essentialist beliefs and positive (i.e., parental responsiveness, autonomy support) and negative types of parental involvement (i.e., overprotection, controlling parenting). Our sample consisted of 1,260 Belgian heterosexual parents (Mage = 49.6 years old; 62% of mothers) of adolescents. We examined relationships through actor-partner interdependence modeling, yielding evidence for several actor effects. We found that both mothers’ and fathers’ endorsement of gender essentialist beliefs was linked to more negative involvement. Additionally, for fathers, these beliefs were associated with less positive involvement. Building on these results, our second study focuses on the role of cultural context in the relationship between parents’ gender essentialist beliefs and their parenting. This cross-cultural study includes ~5,500 parents of adolescents from 11 countries characterized by different levels of gender inequality. The first aim is to explore the interplay between parents’ gender essentialist beliefs and their parental involvement, in terms of overprotection and responsiveness. The second aim is to explore if this relationship is moderated by the cultural context, as indicated by country-level indices of gender inequality (Global Gender Gap Index 2023; European Values Study, 2017-2018).

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