This study aims to generate insights into the mechanisms through which parental style influences adolescent consumer socialization. Toward this end, it examines two alternative conceptual frameworks: (1) The mediation model which posits two key dimensions of parental style (responsiveness and demandingness) as antecedent variables affecting adolescent consumer socialization directly and indirec...

The purpose of this study was to integrate research on organizational socialization tactics and newcomer proactive tactics. Based on the work term experiences of a sample of co-op management students, the results indicate that organizational socialization tactics are positively related to newcomer proactive tactics (feedback seeking, information seeking, networking, boss relationship building, ...

Background: The issue of professional socialization is very important in accounting. Failure to transfer professional values to accounting students may harm both the profession and its students. Individuals must adapt to all the values and norms of their chosen profession. Studying different aspects of professional socialization and the factors that affect it can provide a basis for improving t...

AIMS To determine which alcohol-specific socialization practices are related to adolescents' alcohol use, and to investigate whether parents differ in their alcohol-specific socialization towards their children. DESIGN In a sample of 428 families, both parents and two adolescents (aged 13-16 years) completed a questionnaire at home about alcohol-specific parenting and their own alcohol use. B...

background: one of the significant processes concerning human resources is the organizational socialization of the recruited people through which new members get acquainted with values, norms and behavioral models and adapt themselves with the organizational culture. the present study evaluated the relationship between organizational socialization and commitment among nurses in shariati hospita...

Cultural socialization is the transmission of cultural values and norms to one’s children. The current study presents a new scale to assess parental socialization attitudes to both the U.S. American culture and the Latino culture. The scale is based on a social cognitive model of cultural socialization and cultural values of independence and interdependence. It was hypothesized that individuals...

Racial socialization has been suggested as an important factor in helping African American adolescents cope effectively with racism and discrimination. Although multiple studies have reported a positive link between racial pride socialization and psychological adjustment among African American youth, assessments of the association between adolescent adjustment and another dimension of racial so...

Traditional views of socialization focus primarily on the passive learning by the newcomer of the expectations of the organization. Theorizing and research on cognitive learning and social exchange indicate that the socialization process is vastly more complex. This paper views socialization through the lenses of cognitive learning and social exchange theories finding insights from both to impr...

Religious socialization occurs within the immediate family as well as in the broader social context. Previous research has shown that parents’ religiosity matters less for the transmission of religious beliefs in devout than in secular nations, implying smaller costs of religious socialization. In this paper we test which other societal factors affect the transmission of religious beliefs: anti...