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Nyhus, Ellen and Webley, Paul (2013) 'The relationship between parenting and the economic behavior and orientation of Norwegian Adolescents.' Journal of Genetic Psychology, 174 (6). pp. 620-641.

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Abstract

Little is known about the economic socialization of children and adolescents and the role of parents in this process. The authors’ purpose was to explore the role of parenting in the intergenerational transfer of economic orientation and economic behavior. More specifically, they studied the link between four parenting dimensions (parental warmth–responsiveness, behavioral control, psychological control, autonomy granting), three parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, and neglectful) and adolescents’ conscientiousness, future time perspective, and present hedonistic orientation. The authors also studied the relationships between these dispositions and the adolescents’ spending preferences and ability to control spending. They used data collected from 14–16-year-olds (n = 597) and their parents (n = 469) in Norway. Results showed that adolescents who perceived their parents as psychologically controlling were less future oriented and conscientious, and were more present hedonistic oriented than others, while adolescents who perceived their parents as responsive, autonomy granting, and controlling of behavior were more future orientated and conscientious than others. Adolescents’ scores for conscientiousness and future orientation were negatively associated with preferences for spending and positively with the ability to control spending, while the opposite relationships were found with respect to a present hedonistic orientation. Parental style was also found to be important for the future educational plans of adolescents, and plans for higher education were more frequent among adolescents who characterized their parents as authoritative than among those who perceived their parents as neglectful. Implications of the findings for economic socialization are discussed.

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Directorate
ISSN: 00221325
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2012.754398
Date Deposited: 08 Oct 2013 14:26
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/17167

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