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High Hopes? Educational, Socioeconomic, and Ethnic Differences in Parents' Aspirations for their Unborn Children.
- Source :
- Journal of Child & Family Studies; Dec2016, Vol. 25 Issue 12, p3657-3674, 18p, 2 Diagrams, 7 Charts, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Parents' aspirations shape children's development. In this study, over 6700 pregnant women and over 4300 of their partners from the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort responded to a question about their hopes, dreams, and expectations for their unborn children. Responses were coded according to a Maslowian hierarchy of needs. Mothers and their partners predominantly mentioned self-actualization and physiological aspirations for their unborn children, but their responses varied as a function of parental ethnicity and level of educational achievement and less so as a function of socioeconomic status. Mothers of European ethnicity, and parents with higher levels of educational achievement, mentioned more aspirations for their children-especially for self-actualization and belonging-than mothers of non-European ethnicity and parents with lower levels of educational achievement. These findings are discussed with respect to Maslowian theory and cultural developmental theories, and in terms of understanding the aspirations of parents from diverse backgrounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ASIANS
BLACK people
CONFIDENCE intervals
CULTURE
DREAMS
HOPE
INTERVIEWING
MAORI (New Zealand people)
SAFETY
SELF-actualization (Psychology)
SELF-perception
STATISTICS
TRANSCENDENCE (Philosophy)
WHITE people
LOGISTIC regression analysis
DATA analysis
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
HIERARCHY of needs theory (Psychology)
INTER-observer reliability
EXPECTANT parents
DATA analysis software
ODDS ratio
ONE-way analysis of variance
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10621024
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Child & Family Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 119384561
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-016-0521-7