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Psychology in Spain, 2005, Vol. 9. No 1, 34-40

Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos


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Consequences of family socialization in the Spanish culture. A socialization model with two dimensions – demandingness and responsiveness – and four typologies – authoritative, indulgent, authoritarian and neglectful – has different implications for children in the Spanish culture than for those in English-speaking cultures. The aims of the present research were to confirm that these differences are not due to the effect of the method, and also to replicate previous Spanish studies in which these differences were obtained. Two studies (400 Spanish adolescents in the first one and 4369 in the second one) showed that Spanish children who have received authoritative socialization have the same, or lower, self-concept than children who have received indulgent socialization, the reverse of the relationship found in "Anglo-Saxon" samples in previous research. These results suggest that the effects of different socialization styles cannot be directly generalized to different cultures.

El modelo de socialización con dos dimensions –exigencia y responsividad– y cuatro tipologías –autorizativo, indulgente, autoritario y negligente– tiene diferentes implicaciones para los hijos en la cultura española que tiene en la anglosajona. Con este trabajo se pretende, por una parte, constatar que estas differences no se deben a un efecto del método, y por otra, replicar dos estudios españoles previos en los que se reflejan estas differences. Se constata, a partir de dos estudios con dos muestras diferentes (la primera de 400 adolescentes españoles y la segunda de 4369) que los beneficios en el autoconcepto de la socialización autorizativa en los hijos de padres españoles son menores o iguales que los de la socialización indulgente, lo contrario de lo que sucede en la cultura anglosajona. Estos resultados cuestionan la idea de que los efectos de los tipos de socialización parental sean directamente generalizables entre las diferentes culturas.


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The original Spanish version of this paper has been previously published in Psicothema, 2004, Vol. 16. No 2, 288-293
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Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Gonzalo Musitu, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Valencia, 46010 Valencia. Spain. E-mail: Gonzalo.Musitu@uv.es

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