ABSTRACT

The Ecocultural Model of Development states that parents’ cultural model mediates the relationship between their educational level and their socialization goals. Cultural models refer to beliefs shared by members of a community, and they result from the combination of two dimensions: agency and interpersonal distance. Moreover, both agency and interpersonal distance are made up of explicit and implicit components. In the present study, we focused on how the explicit and the implicit components of the agency dimension of the cultural model are related to mothers’ educational level and socialization goals. The results on this sample (N = 141) suggest that there was a significant indirect effect of mothers’ educational level on their heteronomous socialization goals through the implicit component of the agency dimension, namely attributional style. The higher the mothers’ educational level, the more they attributed other individuals’ behaviour internally and the less they valued socialization goals focused on heteronomy. Moreover, the results suggest that the implicit component of agency is related to mothers’ socialization goals, while the explicit component is not. This is in concordance with research showing that the implicit components of individuals’ cultural model can be better used to differentiate between individuals from different cultures.

摘要

生态文化发展模式指出，父母的文化模式在他们的教育水平和他们的社会化目标之间起到中介作用。文化模式是指社区成员共享的信念，它们是两个维度的结合：代理和人际距离。此外，代理距离和人际距离都由显性和隐性成分组成。在本研究中，我们关注文化模式中能动维度的显性和隐性成分如何与母亲的教育水平和社会化目标相关。该样本的结果（N = 141）表明，母亲的教育水平通过代理维度的隐含成分，即归因方式，对其他律社会化目标有显着的间接影响。母亲的教育水平越高，他们对他人行为的内在归属感越强，对以他为中心的社会化目标越不重视。此外，结果表明，能动性的内隐成分与母亲的社会化目标有关，而外显成分则不然。这与研究表明，个人文化模型的隐含成分可以更好地用于区分来自不同文化的个体。