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According to Bornstein et al. (2011), what was the aim of the study?
According to Bornstein et al. (2011), what was the aim of the study?
- To compare authoritarian attitudes of mothers and fathers in parenting in nine countries.
- To measure progressive attitudes of parenting couples with 7-10 year-old children from nine countries.
- To evaluate similarities and differences in mean levels and relative agreement between mothers' and fathers' attributions and attitudes in parenting in nine countries. (correct)
- To assess the modernity of childrearing attitudes in nine countries.
What does the term 'attribution' refer to in the context of this study?
What does the term 'attribution' refer to in the context of this study?
- Parents' beliefs about the modernity of childrearing attitudes.
- Parents' beliefs of the nature of their children's behavior as intentional, controllable or dispositional, and their beliefs in the nature of their parenting successes and failures. (correct)
- Parents' beliefs about the importance of teaching children absolute obedience to their parents.
- Parents' beliefs about children having a right to their own point of view and expressing it.
What method was used to collect data for the study?
What method was used to collect data for the study?
- 1,133 parenting couples of 7–10 year‐old children from nine countries provided data regarding their beliefs about children having a right to their own point of view and expressing it.
- 1,133 parenting couples of 7–10 year‐old children from nine countries provided data regarding their beliefs about the importance of teaching children absolute obedience to their parents.
- 1,133 parenting couples of 7–10 year‐old children from nine countries provided data regarding the extent to which they held progressive versus authoritarian childrearing views. (correct)
- 1,133 parenting couples of 7–10 year‐old children from nine countries provided data regarding their beliefs about the modernity of childrearing attitudes.
Which attitudinal variables were measured using the Parent Modernity Inventory?
Which attitudinal variables were measured using the Parent Modernity Inventory?
What age group of children were the parenting couples in the study focused on?
What age group of children were the parenting couples in the study focused on?