Perceived Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Personality Organization Among Mexican and American Elementary School Children

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We administered the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ) and the Personality Assessment Questionnaire (PAQ) to 175 elementary school children in Monterrey, Mexico. We compared the results of the same tests given to 220 elementary school children in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The Monterrey children perceive their parents as more rejecting and report themselves more negaticely in terms of certam per sonality dispositions than do the Washington, D.C. children. The results of these comparisons conform both with expectations derived from the literature on Mexican family and personality organization and with those derived from parental acceptance-rejection theory. We obtained significant social class differences only within the Mexican sample: middle class Mon terrey school children perceive their parents as more rejecting and report their own behavior in more negative terms than do working class children. We discuss these results in terms of middle class versus working class family structure.

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