Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, Hollanda, 29 Ağustos 2017
Belsky (1984) stated that parenting is influenced by contextual sources like marital relations, social networks and parents’ working status in “Determinants of Parenting” model. The culture is also another important contextual source in parenting. Families reflect their own cultural values to relationship with their children (Bornstein, 2012). The first of aim this study was to investigate the effect of contextual sources such as marital adjustment and mother’s internalized cultural values on mother-child relationship in a multi-informant design. The other aim was to examine whether or not moderation effect of cultural values on relationship between marital adjustment and mother-child relationship. 138 mother-child dyad participated from Ankara in this study. Children ages changed between 6 and 12 (M= 8.65, SD= 1.74). Demographic Information Form, Dyadic Adjustment Scale, Portrait Values Questionnaire, Parent Child Relationship Scale and also Two Field Map for children were used. Regression and moderation analyses (PROCESS model by Hayes) were performed. Results showed that mothers’ internalized self-transcendence values and marital consensus predicted positive mother child relationship positively; marital satisfaction predicted negative mother child relationship negatively. Also, marital consensus predicted child’s relationship closeness with mother positively. Finally, mothers’ internalized conservation values moderated between relationship marital consensus and positive mother child relationship. Mothers’ internalized self-transcendence values moderated the relationship between marital consensus and child’s perceived closeness with mother. Consequently, the current study indicated that collectivistic values strengthened the relationship between marital relation and mother-child relationship in Turkey. Furthermore, this finding was found to be consistent for both mother’s and child’s perspectives. Thus, this study emphasized within cultural differences in mother-child relationship. The results were discussed in the context of related literature.