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Undergraduate students in a Southeastern US University (n = 232) responded to an inventory that included retrospective measures of their parents’ style of parenting (authoritarian vs. authoritative) and their own childhood psychological tendencies (insecurity vs. confidence), as well as their adult stressors and political orientation. Authoritative parenting positively correlated with childhood confidence and negatively correlated with both childhood insecurity and adult stressors. Conversely, authoritarian parenting was positively associated with childhood insecurity and adult stressors but was not significantly correlated with childhood confidence. For the most part, parenting styles, early childhood tendencies, and adult stressors were unrelated to adult political ideology, contrary to previous longitudinal research reporting these connections.
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Blondin, C.A., Cochran, J.L., Oh, E.J. et al. Relationship of Adult Representations of Childhood Parenting and Personality Tendencies to Adult Stressors and Political Ideology. J Adult Dev 18, 204–213 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10804-011-9129-8
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