What Changes Parents’ Value in Their Children’s Quality?

An Association between Parents’ Demographic Background and Their Valued Qualities in Children

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220504.511How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Education; Children’s Qualities; Demographic Variables; Parents’ Value; World Value Survey

Abstract

What is valued by parents for their children’s qualities worth investigating. Additionally, possible demographic characteristics of parents may change their perception of valued qualities. This investigation interested in how age, income level and highest educational level attained influence parents’ valuement in their children’s qualities. The research uses data from World Value Survey (WVS), from wave1 to wave7. Parent’s valuement qualities and their basic information was used in multivariate regression analysis. As a result, the highest education level and age are essential predictors for the qualities valued. Age of parents is significantly correlated with all qualities except obedience. Among those ten qualities discussed, younger parents value more about independence, imagination and determination and perseverance of their children. Older parents value more about hard work, feelings of responsibility, tolerance and respect, thrift and saving money, religious faith and unselfishness. Parents with Higher education level is significantly associated with more qualities valued (Imagination, Tolerance and respect, Determination and perseverance, religious faith and Obedience) compared to lower educational level. Independence is the only qualities valued by the parents from lower educational background. Feelings of responsibility and tolerance and respect to others are the two most mentioned answers in responses. Future study may focus on the cross-national investigation and find out possible moderators between these relationships.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xuezheng Wang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - What Changes Parents’ Value in Their Children’s Quality?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2812
EP  - 2818
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.511
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.511
ID  - Wang2022
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