Review article

Value transfer from parents to children

Vlatka Družinec orcid.org/0000-0002-2758-8997 ; Primary School Mače, Mače, Croatia

Abstract

During the process of socialization which begins in the family, parents build moral, social and cultural values of their children. Transfer values from parents to children includes values which parents themselves value and live, but also the values which community evaluate and surrounding where a child grows, and which, according to their parents, children should accept.In transfer of their own values parents are mostly successful, what is contributed by the research results in which is determined statistical significant positive bond between the values of parents and children (Kohn, Slomczynski i Schoenbach, 1986; Rohan i Zanna, 1996; Albert, Trommsdorff i Wisnubrata, 2009; Reić Ercegovac i Kuludrović, 2012; Visković, 2013; Headey, Muffels i Wagner, 2014). Value transfer includes child perception and understanding of parents values as well as (un)acceptance values as their owns (Grusec i Goodnow, 1994). Parents, children and socio-economical circumstance of the family are elements on which the process efficacy depends on during the process of transferring parenst values to their children (Schönpflug i Yan, 2014). Children accept values in every day interactions with people from their surrounding, while parents in transferring values to their children use various methods which are generally based on their own life experience or principles of education.This article gives a literature survey in field of transferring values from parents to children. In one place are summarized all conclusions of scientific research on characteristic influence value carrier (parents) and value recipient (children) as well as socio – cultural characteristic of the family on forming values among children.The article is aimed to people who deal with children education, especially parents/guardian who usually do not have formal pedagogic education. For a child to accept values which society gives importance, parents should awake the size of their own authority and model they give to their children, understand the process of forming a system of values in relation to degree of cognitive maturity of a child and apply adequate educational method as well as understand the meaning of the term values and their importance in private and social life of every individual.

Keywords

value transfer factors; family; value education; socialization

Hrčak ID:

178119

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/178119

Publication date:

22.9.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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