Szilvia Jámbori & Ágnes Bálint: : Social Problem-solving, Parenting Styles, and Resilience Among Hungarian and Japanese Parents

There is a striking difference in Japanese and Hungarian parenting in the tools used to persuade a child to obey, as well as in the emphasis on correct behavior towards the authoritative person. In this study, we examined the relationship between parenting styles, parenting resilience, and social-problem solving on Hungarian and Japanese samples (N=166; NH=98; NJ=68). Subjects had to complete the Parental Behavior Inventory (PBI, Lovejoy, Weis, O’Hare & Rubin, 1999) the Social Problem-Solving Inventory–Revised Version (SPSI-R, Kasik et al. 2010) and the Parental Resilience Questionnaire (PREQ, Markó, Bani, Kiss 2019). Our results demonstrated that there is a link between the orientation process of social problem-solving and the emotional dimensions of parenting attitude, but cultural differences were found. While Hungarian parents showed hostile, dismissive behavior towards the child in the absence of a positive orientation, this was determined by the negative orientation of the Japanese parents towards problems and the child’s character traits. According to the data, we may conclude that Japanese parents try to adapt the child’s personality to social expectations. Overall, the orientation processes of social problem-solving are related to the emotional dimension of parenting styles, and the direction of attitudes toward problems is also manifested in attitudes toward the child, regardless of cultural background.

MAGYAR PEDAGÓGIA 121. Number 3. 259-280. (2021)

Levelezési cím / Address for correspondence: Jámbori Szilvia, Szegedi Tudományegyetem Pszichológiai Intézet. H–6722 Szeged, Egyetem u. 2. Bálint Ágnes, Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem Pszichológia MA, H–1088 Budapest, Reviczky u. 4.

 
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