Abstract
Abstract A total of 2,254 Chinese kindergarten children and their parents participated in this investigation of the correlations between family socialization practices and children's personality characteristics. Parents' ratings on scales of child-rearing behaviors were the bases for assessing nine dimensions of socialization and overall favorable parenting. Measures of children's personality and social characteristics—curiosity, attitudes toward others, self-confidence, independence, self-control, frustration tolerance, attitudes toward work, and good character—were derived from behavioral ratings made by head teachers. Control, use of reasoning, encouragement of independence, setting good examples, and general favorable parenting were the socialization variables most strongly associated with positive child characteristics, particularly self-control, attitudes toward work, and good character. A combination of all the socialization measures was significantly correlated with each of the child variables and...
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