TY - JOUR AU - Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie AU - Carnes, Nate C. AU - Sheikh, Sana PY - 2014/03/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Parenting and Politics: Exploring Early Moral Bases of Political Orientation JF - Journal of Social and Political Psychology JA - JSPP VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Original Research Reports DO - 10.5964/jspp.v2i1.243 UR - https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/4773 SP - 43-60 AB - Based on Lakoff’s (2002) Strict Father and Nurturant Parent metaphors for political conservatism and liberalism respectively, two studies explored parenting styles, political ideology, and the moral orientations that might link the two. Restrictive parenting (by both mother and father) predicted political conservatism, and this path was mediated by a strong Social Order orientation (Study 1) reflecting, more broadly, an inhibition-based proscriptive morality (Study 2). Political liberalism was associated with a Social Justice orientation, but was not predicted by nurturant parenting in either study. Study 1 included mothers’ reports of their own parenting, and these were correlated with the students’ responses. Findings support a restrictive moral underpinning for conservatism, but raise questions about the assumed unique association between parental nurturance and political liberalism, which is addressed in the discussion. ER -