parenting styles and culture

• Rudy & Grusec (2000) –Compared correlates of authoritarian and authoritative parenting in mothers fromcollectivist and individualistic cultures
• In individualistic culture, authoritarianism was associated with mothers negativefeelings and cognitions about child.
• No such associations in collectivist cultures.Authoritative Parenting more positively viewed in Western countries
• in the western socites parenting styles are authoritative control thoughts of children and aim for the right condtion and indepndnece
• the collective scoties are more athorittarian aim to operate on natural instinct and aim for obedience and realtedness