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Parental Acceptance and Children’s Psychological Adjustment in the Context of Power and Prestige
On a sample of 313 nine- through 16-year-old Spanish children this study explored the question: Is the relation between paternal versus maternal acceptance and the psychological adjustment of offspring significantly affected by the level of interpersonal power and/or prestige of each parent within the family? The relationship between perceived parental acceptance and children’s psychological adjustment depends on which parent was perceived by children to have higher interpersonal power or prestige than the other. This trend was especially strong in families when mothers were perceived to have both higher power
and higher prestige than fathers. The strongest overall
contribution to children’s adjustment, however, was made in families where fathers were perceived to have both the highest power and the highest prestige.
Keywords Paternal acceptance Maternal acceptance, Psychological adjustment Interpersonal power Prestige
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