Parental Acceptance—Rejection: a Fourth Cross-CulturalResearch on Parenting and Psychological Adjustment of Children

摘要

The parental acceptance–rejection factor wasconsidered by Rohner as one of the major parental factorsinfluencing children's mental health. The Parental Accep-tance Rejection Questionnaire PARQ was administered toadolescents in nine countries. The results show that parentalacceptance–rejection differs across countries. Fathers weremore rejecting and less accepting than mothers, and maleadolescents were more likely to be rejected and less likely tobe accepted than female adolescents. Parental rejection wasmore prevalent among parents with little education and alow family socio-economic level. Parental rejection wasassociated with adolescent psychological disorders andparental acceptance was associated, to a lesser extent, withbetter psychological adjustment. Congruently with ourhypothesis, downright parental rejection is less harming toadolescents' mental health than the inconsistent combina-tion of rejection and acceptance.