TY - JOUR
T1 - Culture Moderates the Genetic and Environmental Etiologies of Parenting
T2 - A Cultural Behavior Genetic Approach
AU - Shikishima, Chizuru
AU - Hiraishi, Kai
AU - Yamagata, Shinji
AU - Neiderhiser, Jenae M.
AU - Ando, Juko
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research of this article: The Keio Twin Project in Japan was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (No. 21223002) to Juko Ando. The Twin and Offspring Study in Sweden was supported by R01MH54610 from the National Institute of Mental Health to Jenae M. Neiderhiser.
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - A cultural behavior genetic approach was introduced as a prospective means to describe psychological differences between cultures. We compared genetic and environmental influences on remembered parenting for samples of twins from Japan and Sweden. Data were collected from 720 pairs of young adult Japanese twins and 824 pairs of adult Swedish twins using the Parental Bonding Instrument. In both samples, a very similar phenotypic factor structure was developed for maternal and paternal parenting. However, the genetic and environmental contributions were different. Parenting in Japan showed more genetic influences, whereas parenting in Sweden showed more shared environmental influences. Moreover, covariation among the six dimensions of parenting (i.e., maternal and paternal Warmth, Protectiveness, and Authoritarianism) was due to genetic correlations in Japan and to shared environmental correlations in Sweden. These results are consistent with the cultural psychology argument that parenting practices are child centered in Japan but parent centered in the West.
AB - A cultural behavior genetic approach was introduced as a prospective means to describe psychological differences between cultures. We compared genetic and environmental influences on remembered parenting for samples of twins from Japan and Sweden. Data were collected from 720 pairs of young adult Japanese twins and 824 pairs of adult Swedish twins using the Parental Bonding Instrument. In both samples, a very similar phenotypic factor structure was developed for maternal and paternal parenting. However, the genetic and environmental contributions were different. Parenting in Japan showed more genetic influences, whereas parenting in Sweden showed more shared environmental influences. Moreover, covariation among the six dimensions of parenting (i.e., maternal and paternal Warmth, Protectiveness, and Authoritarianism) was due to genetic correlations in Japan and to shared environmental correlations in Sweden. These results are consistent with the cultural psychology argument that parenting practices are child centered in Japan but parent centered in the West.
KW - behavior genetics
KW - children
KW - culture and cognition
KW - family
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U2 - 10.1177/1948550612460058
DO - 10.1177/1948550612460058
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84878479009
VL - 4
SP - 434
EP - 444
JO - Social Psychological and Personality Science
JF - Social Psychological and Personality Science
SN - 1948-5506
IS - 4
ER -