Parental responsiveness and adolescent susceptibility to peer influence: A cross-cultural investigation

Zhiyong Yang and Michel Laroche

Journal of Business Research, 2011, vol. 64, issue 9, 979-987

Abstract: From a developmental perspective, this research focuses on how parental responsiveness affects adolescent susceptibility to peer influence both directly, and indirectly, through the key elements of adolescent self-concept (i.e., interdependent self-construal, self-esteem, and self-monitoring). The proposed parent-self-peer model incorporates culture as a moderator. The overarching finding is that in individualist cultures such as Canada, responsiveness reduces susceptibility mainly through an indirect effect by undermining interdependent self-construal, fostering self-esteem, and impairing self-monitoring. However, in collectivist cultures such as China, responsive parenting reduces susceptibility primarily through a direct effect. These findings are largely due to the cultural differences in socialization goals oriented toward individualism vs. collectivism.

Keywords: Parental; responsiveness; Susceptibility; to; peer; influence; Self-construal; Self-esteem; Self-monitoring; Cross-cultural (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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