Psychological Development and Education ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (4): 422-429.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2020.04.05

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Parental Rearing Style and Adolescents' Gratitude: The Mediating Effect of Entitlement and Perspective Taking

WANG Yadan1,2, KONG Fanchang1,2, ZHAO Gai1,2, ZHANG Xingjie1,2, ZHOU Bo1,2, TANG Feng1,2, ZHOU Zongkui1,2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyber Psychology and Behavior, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079;
    2. School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079
  • Published:2020-07-21

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Abstract: The present study used questionnaire method to investigate the influence of parental warmth, parental reject and parental overprotection on adolescents’ gratitude as well as the mediating effect of entitlement and perspective taking among 482 high school students. Results showed that: (1) parental warmth can significantly positively predict the adolescents’ gratitude, parental rejection can significantly negatively predict the adolescents’ gratitude; (2) perspective taking mediated the relationship between three types of parental rearing style and adolescents’ gratitude respectively, entitlement mediated the relationship between parental rejection, parental overprotection and adolescents’ gratitude respectively. This suggested that parental rearing styles influence adolescents’ gratitude through the mediating effect of entitlement and perspective taking, but different parental rearing styles had different effect paths.

Key words: adolescent, parental rearing style, gratitude, entitlement, perspective taking

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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