TY - JOUR
T1 - Citizen-making : the role of national goals for socializing children
AU - BOND, Michael Harris
AU - LUN, Vivian Miu-Chi
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - The ecological, political, religious and economic constraints and opportunities characterizing a nation crystallize to set the agenda for socializing children, its future citizens. Parented accordingly, members of those nations would come to adopt the values, beliefs, skills and attitudes that constitute the requisite human capital to sustain that nation. This study reports on the profiling of 55 nations by two dimensions of the socialization goals for children extracted from the World Values Survey, viz., Self-directedness versus Other-directedness, and Civility versus Practicality. An affluent, less corrupt and more gender-equal society is associated with greater focus on Self-directedness and Civility. Both dimensions show convergent and discriminant validities in their correlation with nation-level psychosocial variables such as citizen subjective well-being, values, beliefs, pace of life and trust of out-groups. These dimensions are also shown to connect a nation's ecological construct to the outcomes of its citizens, adding a psychological-developmental perspective to examine nation-building and cultural transmission.
AB - The ecological, political, religious and economic constraints and opportunities characterizing a nation crystallize to set the agenda for socializing children, its future citizens. Parented accordingly, members of those nations would come to adopt the values, beliefs, skills and attitudes that constitute the requisite human capital to sustain that nation. This study reports on the profiling of 55 nations by two dimensions of the socialization goals for children extracted from the World Values Survey, viz., Self-directedness versus Other-directedness, and Civility versus Practicality. An affluent, less corrupt and more gender-equal society is associated with greater focus on Self-directedness and Civility. Both dimensions show convergent and discriminant validities in their correlation with nation-level psychosocial variables such as citizen subjective well-being, values, beliefs, pace of life and trust of out-groups. These dimensions are also shown to connect a nation's ecological construct to the outcomes of its citizens, adding a psychological-developmental perspective to examine nation-building and cultural transmission.
KW - Socialization goals for children
KW - National analysis
KW - National ecology
KW - Citizen psychosocial outcomes
KW - World Value Survey
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/2028
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84888400217&doi=10.1016%2fj.ssresearch.2013.11.002&partnerID=40&md5=60d110da14c59bd882f05735ab7e1779
U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2013.11.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2013.11.002
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 0049-089X
VL - 44
SP - 75
EP - 85
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
ER -