The aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between authoritarian style of the parents and the negative behavior in their children in dental office. Methods and materials: Influence of the authoritarian style on children’s behavior in dental office was determined in 300 children and their parents, who signature inform consent. There are eight questions which determined authoritarian...

Career unreadiness, covering career indecision and career myth, is an issue for universities to address. Supposedly, career unreadiness is responsible for the university student's anxiety and partly results from authoritarian parenting during the student's childhood. This is an uncharted concern for this study to clarify. The study surveyed 229 undergraduates in two universities in Hong Kong, C...

Based on goal setting theory, this study explores the positive effect and influencing process of authoritarian leadership on employee performance, as well as the moderating role of individual power distance in this process. Data from 211 supervisor-subordinate dyads in Chinese organizations indicates that authoritarian leadership is positively associated with employee performance, and learning ...

Following an indigenous approach and fairness theory, we develop a theoretical model to investigate when and how authoritarian leadership will improve tacit knowledge sharing (KS). Drawing on survey data from 309 Chinese employees, we examine whether authoritarian leadership will affect procedural fairness (PF) perception and interactional fairness (IF) perception, which in turn, will affect ta...

Whitten (1976) employed the California F-scale to assess authoritarian attitudes in 1950 and in 1973. He was also able to draw some conclusions about the changes between attitudes found in 1950 and those of 1973. He explained the changes as an evolution of patterns in social phenomena. The study replicates the Whitten (1976) study utilizing the same survey methodology. This paper employs compar...

Three questionnaires that measure parenting style, adolescent-family connectedness, and mental health were administered to 351 Egyptian adolescents. Results show that in rural communities the authoritarian style is more predominant in the parenting of male adolescents, while the authoritative style is more predominant in the parenting of female adolescents. In urban communities, on the other ha...

In a dyad interaction, respecting and obeying those with high status (authority) is highly valued in Chinese societies. Regarding explicit behaviors, Chinese people usually show respect to and obey authority, which we call authoritarian orientation. Previous literature has indicated that Chinese people have a high degree of authoritarian personality, which was considered a national character. H...

S[NCE the publication of The Authoritarian Personality (2), the relationship of ethnic prejudice and authoritarian attitudes to personality and psychopathology has been the subject of anumber of studies. Several scales have been used as measures of authoritarian attitudes, and the personality factors underlying authoritarianism have been investigated with an even greater variety of techniques. ...

Sixty families were studied to examine the relationship among authoritarian, psychologically controlling, and authoritative parenting and the internalizing and externalizing behaviors of children with diabetes and their siblings. For both children with diabetes and siblings, mothers’ and fathers’ authoritarian and fathers’ psychologically controlling parenting were associated positively with ex...