Psychological Development and Education ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (2): 164-170.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2018.02.05

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The Correlations between Parenting Style and the Sense of Social Responsibility among Undergraduate: The Mediating Role of Self-control and the Gender Difference

LUO Lei1, MING Hua1, TIAN Yuan1, XIA XiaoQing2, HUANG SiLin1   

  1. 1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, BNU, Beijing 100875;
    2. School of Education, Anqing Normal University, Anqing 246133
  • Online:2018-03-15 Published:2018-03-15

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Abstract: The sense of social responsibility is an important psychological quality that is referring to taking social responsibility and helping others. Previous studies have suggested that parenting style can predict their children's sense of social responsibility. However, little research has explored the mediating role in the correlations between parenting styles and the sense of social responsibility among undergraduate. Increasing evidence has suggested that self-control might be a mediating variable. Self-control is considered to be a remarkable ability to adapt to the society and also the most basic way of self-regulation in self-consciousness structure. In sum, this study aimed to examine the correlations between parenting style and the sense of social responsibility and the mediating role of self-control in the relationship between the two variables among undergraduate in China.
A total of 852 undergraduates were recruited from 5 universities in China. The mean age of the sample was 20.44 yearsdd (SD=1.18; range:17~25 years). 68.38% were girl, and 6 undergraduates did not report their gender. The results showed that:(1) The sense of social responsibility was positively related to parental care, while negatively related to parental control. (2) There was a significant positive correlation between self-control and sense of social responsibility. (3) Self-control acted as the mediating variable in the correlation between parental care and social responsibility, but not between parental control and social responsibility. (4) The mediating role of self-control in the correlation between parent care and sense of social responsibility were significant among girls, but not among boys.
Based on these findings, we suggested that parental care could significantly improve undergraduates'sense of social responsibility, but parental control could decrease. Specially, as for girls, parents care not only could directly improve their sense of social responsibility, but also indirectly increase throughout self-control. However, parents care could directly improve boys'sense of social responsibility, but direct way not found in this study. The results of this study provided a basis for the possibility of promoting the sense of social responsibility among undergraduates from the family perspective.

Key words: parenting style, self-control, sense of social responsibility, gender difference, undergraduate

CLC Number: 

  • B844

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