Harsh child-rearing produces an authoritarian personality supporting discriminatory politics.
Evidence
Strict, punitive child-rearing methods result in … Resentment toward authority, which must be repressed and displaced because of fear of that authority and is therefore expressed by … The covarying traits constituting the surface personality syndrome and including submissiveness to authority, rigid thinking, a tendency to superstition, intolerance of ambiguity, conventional morality, rejection of weakness and nonconformity, hostility toward out-groups, and aversion to introspective and psychological insights. This syndrome, in turn, is expressed as … A set of sociopolitical attitudes and beliefs consistent with support for antiegalitarian, undemocratic, and discriminatory leaders, parties, and policies. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 450
Categorization
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
- XREF: connects to: Rigid distant fathers and self-sacrificing mothers raise children prone to authoritarian personality — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 443; A permissive, secure childhood produces tolerant personalities, harsh discipline authoritarian ones; Authoritarianism is operationalized through childrearing values rather than politics (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- A permissive, secure childhood produces tolerant personalities, harsh discipline authoritarian ones
#corroborates(0.95) - Overtly punitive family socialization was theorized to produce authoritarian personality
#corroborates(0.92) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 398 - Authoritarianism arises from social learning about threat, not harsh parenting
#contradicts(0.90) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2451 - Authoritarianism is operationalized through childrearing values rather than politics
#expands(0.80) - Authoritarian parenting produces children unable to manage aggression or form intimate bonds
#qualifies(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1779 - Authoritarian personality traits alone do not produce prejudice without activating demagogy
#qualifies(0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2433 - Authoritarianism stems from a conformist personality reading the world as dangerous.
#corroborates(0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2474 - Deep childhood psychodynamic conflicts drive people toward conservative politics.
#corroborates(0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2278 - A single authoritarian personality type links disparate political violence events
#expands(0.72) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 75 - People with intense personal convictions are more likely to oppose authoritarian regimes.
#contradicts(0.70) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1143