Citizen-making: The role of national goals for socializing children |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychological and Brain Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States;2. Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, 12587 Berlin, Germany;3. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States;4. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
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Abstract: | The ecological, political, religious and economic constraints and opportunities characterizing a nation crystallize to set the agenda for socializing children, its future citizens. Parented accordingly, members of those nations would come to adopt the values, beliefs, skills and attitudes that constitute the requisite human capital to sustain that nation. This study reports on the profiling of 55 nations by two dimensions of the socialization goals for children extracted from the World Values Survey, viz., Self-directedness versus Other-directedness, and Civility versus Practicality. An affluent, less corrupt and more gender-equal society is associated with greater focus on Self-directedness and Civility. Both dimensions show convergent and discriminant validities in their correlation with nation-level psychosocial variables such as citizen subjective well-being, values, beliefs, pace of life and trust of out-groups. These dimensions are also shown to connect a nation’s ecological construct to the outcomes of its citizens, adding a psychological–developmental perspective to examine nation-building and cultural transmission. |
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Keywords: | Socialization goals for children National analysis National ecology Citizen psychosocial outcomes World Value Survey |
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