Abstract:

Filial piety as one of the core values of Chinese traditional culture, which has become the dominant psychology, behavior and the strength of daily life. Therefore, filial piety is an important topic of indigenous psychology, the relevant empirical study is still rare, so the research of filial piety need to be further deepened and enhanced. Intergenerational transmission is a new perspective and hot topic of this field. A series of studies have been carried out abroad, but we just begin to introduce overseas relevant research dynamic, and the empirical research of intergenerational transmission of filial piety is lack both in domestic and abroad. Therefore, the study tried to explore the effects of materialism on intergenerational transmission of authoritarian filial piety and reciprocal filial piety. Data was drawn from a survey of 439 children and their father or mother by door-to-door investigation in a village in Hubei province. Parents completed the Dual Filial Piety Concept Scale and materialism Scale, and children completed the Dual Filial Piety Concept Scale and materialism Scale. This took about 15 to 30 minutes to complete the questionnaires. The descriptive statistics, and correlation and regression among factors were calculated with SPSS 18.0, and AMOS17.0 was applied to deal with all data. The results indicated that parents’ materialism had negatively predicted children’s authoritarian filial piety and reciprocal filial piety, and children’s materialism had negatively children’s authoritarian filial piety and reciprocal filial piety. Parents’ materialism had positively predicted children’s materialism, and children’s materialism played complete intermediary role between parents’ materialism and children’s authoritarian filial piety and reciprocal filial piety. The results also found that there were significant effect on the intergenerational transmission of authoritarian filial piety and reciprocal filial piety. But children’s materialism played a significant negative moderate effect between parents’ authoritarian filial piety and children’s authoritarian filial piety; and children’s materialism played a significant negative moderate effect between parents’ reciprocal filial piety and children’s reciprocal filial piety, but the moderating effect of parents’ materialism are not significant. In conclusion, this study examined about the effects of materialism on intergenerational transmission of authoritarian filial piety and reciprocal filial piety. Generally speaking, materialism had multiple negative impacted parents and children’s authoritarian filial piety and reciprocal filial piety. The findings and conclusion of this study has important significance for some social or family problems, and provides reference for education of filial piety in home and school. These results also provide some empirical evidences sinicization research and cross-cultural comparison. It contributes to our understanding of dual filial piety in Chinese society.

摘要：

基于代际传递的视角，入户配对调查了439户亲子被试，构建并检验了物质主义对双元孝道直接和间接的影响模型。结果显示：(1)亲子的物质主义都显著负向预测子女的权威性孝道和互惠性孝道；(2)物质主义存在较强的代际传递效应，且父母物质主义以子女物质主义为中介变量间接负向预测子女的权威性孝道和互惠性孝道；(3)权威性孝道和互惠性孝道都存在较强的代际传递效应，子女物质主义在其中起了显著的负向调节作用，但父母物质主义的调节效应未达显著水平。据此结果，揭示亲子的物质主义对权威性孝道和互惠性孝道的多重负面影响路径，这对学校和家庭的孝道教育具有一定的启示作用。